BACKGROUND Neonatal jaundice is treated daily at all hospitals. However, the routine, urgency, and case load of most doctors stop them from carefully analyzing all the factors that they would like to (and should) take into account. This article develops a complex decision support system for neonatal jaundice management. METHODS The problem is represented by means of an influence diagram, incl...

A rare fatal case of self-poisoning with nitrobenzene following oral ingestion is reported. On presentation to the hospital, severe methemoglobinemia (70%) was observed in an 82-year-old male who had ingested 250 mL of an unknown substance in the previous 24 h. Methylene blue and exchange transfusion were the therapeutic methods applied in the treatment of the methemoglobinemia. Forty-eight hou...

OBJECTIVE: To review the recent medical literature on the treatment of neonatal jaundice, focusing on practical aspects that are relevant to pediatricians and neonatologists. SOURCES: An extensive review of the related literature was performed, also including the authors clinical experience in this field of investigation. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS: Jaundice is very common among infants during the...

The management of sickle-cell crisis in a pregnant patient by exchange transfusion is described, the procedure leading to immediate and dramatic improvement in the condition. Partial exchange transfusion in three other patients with sickle-cell anaemia, judged by episodes of crisis in previous pregnancies to be at particular risk, is also reported and the value of this method of management disc...

Sinniah, D., Tay, L. K., and Dugdale, A. E. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 712. Phenobarbitone in neonatal jaundice. Eighty-three jaundiced newborn infants were studied, 41 received phenobarbitone, and 42 served as controls. 48 hours after starting treatment the mean serum bilirubin level of the group of normal birthweight infants was significantly lower than that of controls. Ex...

Objective: To determine the frequency of common indications exchange transfusion in neonates with jaundice presenting to a tertiary care health facility. Study Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study. Place and Duration: Department Paediatrics, National Institute Child Health, Karachi Pakistan, from January 2022 June 2022. Methodology: All up 28 days either gender were included. Details abo...

The O2-carrying blood substitute based on polymerized bovine hemoglobin (PBH) was used to determine efficacy in maintaining tissue Po2 after an 80% isovolemic blood exchange leading to a hematocrit of 19% [5.4 g Hb/dl from red blood cells (RBCs) and 6.3 g Hb/dl from PBH]. Effects were studied in terms of O2 delivery, O2 extraction, and tissue Po2 at the microcirculatory level at 1, 12, and 24 h...

Blood transfusion is a life-saving procedure in which whole blood or parts of are introduced into patient's bloodstream intravenously. The need maybe due to physiological pathological causes. objective this study was document the pattern and indications for at Special Care Baby Unit Benue State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH), Makurdi. This retrospective review 126 neonates who received ca...