Basic care reduces neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia.
We studied the frequency of jaundice, bilirubin estimations, phototherapy administration and exchange transfusions performed at 5 year intervals (1981, 1986 and 1991) among babies admitted to special care unit and those managed in postnatal ward, showing a decline which was significant except for the number of exchange transfusions performed. The number of term babies with serum bilirubin > 15 mg/dl and preterm babies with serum bilirubin > 10 mg/dl also declined significantly without prophylactic phototherapy or pharmacotherapy.
Daga
S R
SR
Institute of Child Health, Grant Medical College, Bombay, India.
Desai
N V
NV
Shende
S R
SR
Kinikar
N A
NA
D005078:Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007567:Jaundice, Neonatal / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010789:Phototherapy