Improving post‐discharge neonatal surveillance for the jaundiced newborn

Managing the jaundiced newborn: a persistent challenge.

©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ, March 17, 2015, 187(5) 335 Pediatricians and family physicians deal regularly with jaundiced newborn infants who emerge unscathed from their transient exposure to an elevated serum bilirubin level. Yet, despite published guidelines for the management of neonatal jaundice, there are rare infants in whom bilirubin encephalopathy develops. Canada cu...

The Jaundiced Newborn in the Emergency Department: Prevention of Kernicterus

A jaundiced neonate in an emergency department can be a catastrophic emergency that necessitates expeditious care. Progressive and irreversible bilirubin neurotoxicity may be minimized by rapid reduction of serum bilirubin concentrations through a crash-cart approach: immediate administration of intensive phototherapy and preparation for a possible exchange transfusion. Onset of acute bilirubin...

Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia and Bilirubin Encephalopathy Investigations into the diagnosis, epidemiology, pathogenesis, management and treatment of the jaundiced newborn

modification of nanoclay for improving the physico-mechanical properties of dental adhesives

هدف اصلی این مطالعه تهیه یک سامانه نوین چسب عاجی دندانی بر پایه نانورس پیوند شده با پلی متاکریلیک اسید، نانورس پیوند شده با پلی اکریلیک اسید، مخلوط نانوسیلیکا و نانورس پیوند شده با پلی متاکریلیک اسید، مخلوط نانوسیلیکا و نانورس پیوند شده با پلی اکریلیک اسید و نانورس پیوند شده با کیتوسان اصلاح شده با گلایسیدیل متاکریلات است. پیوند پلی متاکریلیک اسید و پلی اکریلیک اسید بر ری سطح نانورس در حضور و ...

Support for the usefulness of passive postdischarge surveillance in surgical site infection.

The recently published article, “Measuring hand hygiene compliance at hospital entrances” by Vaidotas et al1 was very interesting. These authors evaluated the hand hygiene compliance of patients, visitors, and employees upon entry to a hospital and demonstrated abysmally low hand hygiene rates. Using direct observation of patients, visitors, and health care workers at 2 points of entry, they re...