Protective device for the hand of a medical personnel when puncturing an umbilical cord of neonates

A protective device for a hand of a medical personnel when puncturing an umbilical cord of a neonate, comprising:

• an umbilical cord channel for receiving the umbilical cord of the neonate;
• two wings arranged at an upper edge of the umbilical cord channel and configured to act as hand protection, the wings each extending laterally away from the umbilical cord channel;
• and
• two handle strips each having a top end and a bottom end defining a height of the handle strip, the handle strips being connected to the two wings via the top end only and each handle strip case extending from the lateral wings in a depth direction of the umbilical cord channel, the height of the respective handle strips corresponding at least to the depth of the umbilical cord channel, the two handle strips formed separately from the umbilical cord channel so that the umbilical cord channel is arranged between the two handle strips,
• wherein the two wings are configured to extend over a hand of the medical personnel when the device is gripped by the two handle strips.