Transcutaneous bilirubin
Transcutaneous Bilirubin Measurement: Does It Work in the Real World?
... In their study of the routine use of transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) measurements in 27 well infant nurseries, Taylor et al 1 found that 2.2% of TcB measurements underestimated the clinical laboratory ...
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Transcutaneous Bilirubin Levels for the First 120 Postnatal Hours in Healthy Neonates
... in transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) deter- mination offered a promising perspec- tive to health care professionals, be- cause the new-generation devices have been proved reliable for estimat- ing ...
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Transcutaneous Bilirubin Measurement: A Multicenter Evaluation of a New Device
... new transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) measuring device that uses the entire spectrum of visible light (380 –760 nm) reflected from the ...of bilirubin in the capillary beds and subcutaneous tissue to be ...
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Comparative study between serum and transcutaneous bilirubin measurements in new-borns
... the transcutaneous bilirubin was compared with the serum bilirubin ...between transcutaneous and serum bilirubin values was determined using linear regression ...
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Effectiveness of transcutaneous bilirubin measurement in managing neonatal jaundice in postnatal ward of a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan
... blood bilirubin samples using transcutaneous bilirubin (TcBR) nomogram in full-term, low-risk babies who are born at our hospital and are admitted in postnatal ward after ...serum ...
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Agreement test of transcutaneous bilirubin and bilistick with serum bilirubin in preterm infants receiving phototherapy
... We did not use the newest version of Bilistick because it was not available during our time of study [11]. The population of our study includes mostly patients of Sumatran and Javanese descent, in whom skin tones do not ...
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Measurement of Transcutaneous Bilirubin with Bilicheck as a Jaundice Screening Method in Neonates in Pediatric Emergency Departments
... 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 ...
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Determining the Correlation and Accuracy of Three Methods of Measuring Neonatal Bilirubin Concentration: Serum,Capillary and Transcutaneous Bilirubin
... the transcutaneous bilirubin concentration was measured three times and each measurement lasted approximately 10 to 15 ...serum bilirubin concentration ...three transcutaneous bilirubin ...
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Limitations and Opportunities of Transcutaneous Bilirubin Measurements
... for transcutaneous bilirubin- ometers. Until now, all transcutaneous bilirubinometers measure the TcB in a tissue volume consisting mainly of skin cells and hence, the extravascular, rather than the ...
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Measuring transcutaneous bilirubin: a comparative analysis of three devices on a multiracial population
... Transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) determination has become a valuable aid in avoiding significant neonatal hyperbiliru- binemia [1] and has significantly reduced the number of heel stick blood samplings and ...
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Quality improvement initiative using transcutaneous bilirubin nomogram to decrease serum bilirubin sampling in low-risk babies
... introducing transcutaneous bilirubin (TcBR) testing using TcBR nomogram on the number of serum bilirubin samples ...JM-105 transcutaneous bilirubinometer in the postnatal ...serum ...
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Transcutaneous Bilirubin Nomogram in late preterm for prediction of significant hyperbilirubinemia
... serum bilirubin level because of the immaturity of the hepatic bilirubin conjugation pathway ...of bilirubin induced brain injury and kernicterus are more for late preterm at a given bilirubin ...
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Transcutaneous Bilirubin in Exclusively Breastfed Healthy Term Newborns Up to 12 Days of Life
... bilirubin in breastfed term newborns remained higher (8 mg/dL) than the initial values for up to 20 days of life. In patients fed with whey-protein for- mulas, values similar to the initial levels of 5 mg/dL were ...
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Trends of Transcutaneous Bilirubin in Neonates Who Develop Significant Hyperbilirubinemia
... increase in relation to the presence of different risk factors are presented in Appendix 1. Multiple regression analy- sis revealed that ABO incompatibilities and G6PD de fi ciency were positively related to the rate of ...
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Transcutaneous Bilirubin Nomogram for Prediction of Significant Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia
... The study adhered strictly to our institu- tion’s protocol for the management of neonatal jaundice. TcB determinations were obtained at 12 ⫾ 2, 18 ⫾ 2, and 24 ⫾ 2 hours during the first postnatal day and at 12-hour ...
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Reliability of Transcutaneous Bilirubin Devices in Preterm Infants: A Systematic Review
... METHODS: Medline, Embase, Cochrane library, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and Scopus were searched (from database inception date until December 2012). Additional citations were identi fi ed by ...
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Comparison of transcutaneous bilirubin with serum bilirubin measurements in neonates at tertiary care center in western part of India
... less specificity with TSB >15 mg/dl but to avoid potential complication of higher bilirubin level in newborns, low specificity can be acceptable. TcB measurement is useful as an alternative, quick and ...
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Transcutaneous Bilirubin Measurements and Serum Total Bilirubin Levels in Indigenous African Infants
... at measuring bilirubin levels ⬍ 12 mg/dL. However, with careful review of the data, we found that the lower accuracy at STB ⱖ 12 mg/dL is not clinically important. For example, of the 127 jaundiced infants ...
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Validation of a transcutaneous bilirubin meter in Mongolian neonates: comparison with total serum bilirubin
... Linear regression analysis was used to determine the asso- ciation between the two methods of measurement. We used Bland-Altman plots [17] (mean and 95% confidence intervals [CI]) to determine whether the difference ...
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Transcutaneous Bilirubin Measurements: Variation in Meter Response
... laboratories in the measurement of serum bilirubin concentration4 and because no information has been published regarding the potential variation in the response of different transcutane[r] ...
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