A clinical examination system is presented to analyse the yellowness presented on the skin of premature newborn babies, namely transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB). The system is based on chromatic modulation methods to extract, process and analyse data in order to determine the spectral chromaticity of a baby’s tissue without taking blood samples. Chromatic bilirubin monitoring tests have shown a hi...

Normal full-term infants were followed by serial transcutaneous bilirubinometry over the first week of life. The pattern of physiologic jaundice in our population was similar to that shown for white infants. Mean maximum bilirubin peak was seen on day four of life and was also similar to that shown for American white infants. The incidence of non physiologic hyperbilirubinemia defined as 2...

OBJECTIVE To assess the utility of 24 and 48 hours transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) index for predicting subsequent significant hyperbilirubinemia in healthy term neonates. METHODS TcB indices were obtained for healthy, breastfed, term AGA newborns at 24 +/- 2, 48 +/- 2 and subsequently at intervals of 24 hours. Neonates with illness, on treatment and positive Direct Coomb's test were excluded....

Transcutaneous measurement of bilirubin is being used for neonatal jaundice. Its utility during phototherapy in preterm babies not established. The objective our study was to assess the efficacy transcutaneous (TcB) comparison total serum newborns at admission and covered skin area (glabella). It a prospective observational conducted intensive care unit tertiary hospital from January 2017 2019....

BACKGROUND Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia has traditionally been screened by either total serum bilirubin or transcutaneous bilirubin. Whole blood bilirubin (TwB) by the GEM Premier 4000® blood gas analyzer (GEM) is a relatively new technology and it provides fast bilirubin results with a small sample volume and can measure co-oximetry and other analytes. Our clinical study was to evaluate the rel...

background: the readmission rate for neonatal jaundice has been increased in recent years. this has been attributed to shorter length of postpartum hospital stays without comprehensive follow-up. the purpose of this study was to determine the diagnostic value of pre-discharge transcutaneous bilirubin (tcb) levels for prediction of subsequent hyperbilirubinemia in healthy term neonates. methods:...