OBJECTIVES Our goal was to assess the impact of programmatic and coordinated use of transcutaneous bilirubinometry (TcB) on the incidence of severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and measures of laboratory, hospital, and nursing resource utilization. METHODS We compared the neonatal hyperbilirubinemia-related outcomes of 14 796 prospectively enrolled healthy infants ≥35 weeks gestation offered r...

BACKGROUND Incidence of jaundice is high in newborn infants. Since well appearing newborns are rapidly and routinely discharged from hospital, performing an inexpensive noninvasive pre-discharge screening test for evaluation of jaundice seems to be necessary. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to compare the accuracy of cutaneous v/s serum bilirubin measurements in this regard. PATIENTS AN...

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...