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Articles and journal scans about Bilirubin
Journal Scan
October 2007
Severe hyperbilirubinemia in the UK
Increased serum bilirubin (hyperbilirubinemia) and consequent jaundice are common during the neonatal period. Around 50 % of newborns develop some degree of jaundice, during the first week of life, but for the vast majority this is mild (serum bilirubin peaking no higher than 150-200 µmol/L) and spontaneously resolves ...
Bilirubin
Neonatology
Article
January 2007
Emergency assessment of oxygenation
Hypoxia and hypoxemia describe states of oxygen
deficiency: hypoxia is deficiency in oxygenation at tissue or
cellular level whilst hypoxemia is a suboptimal normal partial
pressure of oxygen. Hypoxia and hypoxemia are interrelated, as
untreated hypoxemia will ultimately result in hypoxia.
It should
also be noted...
Blood gases/acid-base
Bilirubin
Journal Scan
December 2006
Blood gas analyzers provide reliable bilirubin measurement
Modern blood gas analyzers have incorporated technology that
allows spectrophotometric measurement of bilirubin concentration on
the same whole-blood sample that is used to measure blood gas
parameters. A recent French multicenter study confirms the
reliability of this technique for measuring bilirubin during the...
Bilirubin
Point-of-care testing
Article
April 2005
Management of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
Supported by Pennsylvania Hospital Kernicterus Fund and the Eglin Fund
In the late 1980s, the question whether bilirubin damaged the brain of healthy infants was unanswered. The absence of documented evidence influenced the formulation of the 1994 consensus-based guidelines...
Neonatology
Bilirubin
Journal Scan
April 2005
Extreme neonatal jaundice
A raised serum bilirubin (hyperbilirubinemia) and consequent
jaundice is a common feature during the neonatal period; more than
half of all newborns develop mild jaundice – with serum bilirubin
rarely exceeding 150 µmol/L – during the first week or two of life.
This transitory phenomenon usually resolves spontaneously ...
Bilirubin
Neonatology
Article
October 2004
Jaundice in the newborn infant
About half of all newborn infants born at term develop
jaundice during their first days of life, and the lower the
gestational age the more frequent the jaundice is. Newborns
develop hyperbilirubinemia because of a large bilirubin
production, low hepatic excretion and enterohepatic
recirculation. At birth the newborn ...
Bilirubin
Neonatology
Hemoglobins
Article
July 2004
Useful tips to avoid preanalytical errors in blood gas testing: neonatal total bilirubin
50-75 % of all newborns develop jaundice during their first week of life [1,2,3]. The decision behind which treatment is necessary and when it should be initiated is based upon a measurement of the concentration of total bilirubin (ctBil) in serum, plasma or whole blood.
It is therefore obvious that it is important...
Quality assurance
Bilirubin
Preanalytical phase
Hemoglobins
Blood gases/acid-base
Article
February 2001
Hyperbilirubinemia and requirements to the determination of the concentration of bilirubin
60 % of all neonates develop jaundice during their first week of life and thereby run a risk of getting hyperbilirubinemia.
Although different approaches for establishing treatment criteria have been suggested, treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is usually still based on the measurement of total bilirubin...
Preanalytical phase
Bilirubin
Neonatology
Hemoglobins