Newborn Nursery Teaching Attending Guide: Module 6. Newborn Jaundice

Jaundice in the newborn.

Hyperbilirubinemia is the commonest morbidity in the neonatal period and 5-10% of all newborns require intervention for pathological jaundice. Neonates on exclusive breast-feeding have a different pattern of physiological jaundice as compared to artificially fed babies. Guidelines from American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for management of jaundice in a normal term newborn have been included in...

Jaundice and factor VII deficiency in newborn

Resistance to thyroid hormone is an uncommon condition. We report the clinical and laboratory findings of a case with both resistance to thyroid hormone and, a reduced capacity to produce and respond to thyroid hormone. RTH is a disorder characterized by elevated circulating thyroid hormones, state of non-suppressed pituitary TSH secretion and refractoriness to hormone action in peripheral tiss...

Electrical hazards in the newborn nursery.

Common hematologic problems in the newborn nursery.

"Common red blood cell disorders encountered in the normal newborn nursery include hemolytic disease of the newborn and resultant hyperbilirubinemia, anemia, and polycythemia. A less frequent clinically relevant hematologic issue in newborns to be covered herein is thrombocytopenia."

Acholuric jaundice in a newborn infant.

Mrs. C., the mother, of the affected infant, came under observation for the first time in 1940, with a history of chronic backache, puffiness of the eyes, and frequency of micturition. These symptoms were discovered to be due to pyelitis which was treated with sulphonamide, with marked improvement. At this time she was noticed to be slightly jaundiced and her spleen was enlarged to three finger...