Email Newsletters. By Karen Price. Dan Fisher has led the Pitt women's volleyball team to a 44-20 record in his two seasons as coach, and beginning Thursday, he will try to lead the USA to a gold medal in the Pan American Games in Toronto.
Reflex/confirmation testing not performed. Meconium or umbilical cord tissue are preferred over urine for testing of infants Urine testing indicates drug use over the previous 1â10 days, depending on the drug. Meconium may be contaminated by urine; umbilical cord tissue may be contaminated by maternal blood.
The placenta also provides a reservoir of blood for the fetus, delivering blood to it in case of hypotension and vice versa, comparable to a capacitor. Ultrasound image of human placenta and umbilical cord (color Doppler rendering) with central cord insertion and three umbilical vessels, at 20 weeks of pregnancy.