OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of massage therapy on transcutaneous bilirubin of stable preterm infants. METHODS The controlled clinical trial was conducted in 2014 at Shahid Hasheminejhad Hospital, Iran, and comprised preterm neonatal children in the neonatal intensive care unit. The newborns were divided into two groups of massage and control via random allocation. The children in the co...

Background: Neonatal jaundice is a common condition in approximately 60% of term newborns during the first week after birth. Therefore, it is necessary to detect methods for the prevention of this problem.This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of massage therapy on transcutaneous bilirubin level in healthy term newborns. Methods: The present study was conducted on102 healthy term newbo...

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that a “screening” total serum bilirubin (TSB) or transcutaneous (TcB) measurement should be obtained prior to discharge in infants ≥35 weeks' gestation and used with an assessment clinical risk factors predict which are at develop severe hyperbilirubinemia (Pediatrics 2004;129:1193-8) (J Perinatol 2009;29:612-7). TcB TSB values plotted on hour spec...

Objectives: To study the reliability of a transcutaneous bilirubinometer (Bilicheck) to determine bilirubin levels in neonates consulting for jaundice in a Paediatric Emergency Department (ED), and to evaluate its usefulness as a screening method. Methods: Prospective observational study realized between June of 2005 and December of 2005 in neonates consulting at a paediatric emergency departme...

OBJECTIVE To determine the curve of transcutaneous bilirubin in breastfed term neonates up to 12 days of life. METHODS In a prospective cohort study, we performed a 12-day evaluation of 223 healthy, exclusively breastfed, appropriate-for-gestational-age neonates who roomed-in for at least 48 hours. Each newborn had forehead transcutaneous bilirubin and body weight measured at the end of 1, 2,...

The transcutaneous (Tc) bilirubinometer was evaluated in 105 jaundiced neonates, comprising 38 Malays, 37 Chinese and 30 Indians, who had not been treated with phototherapy or exchange transfusion. Tc bilirubin index and serum bilirubin concentration correlated at statistically significant levels in all the three racial groups. Unlike the Chinese and Malay babies, the action levels, using Tc bi...

The gold standard to assess jaundice in neonates is the serum bilirubin measurement. Blood sampling for the determination of total serum bilirubin (TSB) is painful for newborns and stressful for parents. The Bilicheck®, a new transcutaneous bilirubinometer, is considered as a more accurate measurement of bilirubin compared to the previous bilirubinometers courtesy of its advanced technology. Th...