Managing the jaundiced newborn: a persistent challenge
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.122117