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Neonatal jaundice (PDF 525P)

Neonatal jaundice (PDF 525P)

Neonatal jaundice (PDF 525P)

This note covers the following topics: guidance summary, key terms, key priorities for implementation, threshold table, summary of all recommendations, research recommendations, treatment threshold graphs, investigation phototherapy and exchange transfusion pathways, introduction, neonatal jaundice, aim of the guideline, areas outside the remit of the guideline, who has developed the guideline, related nice guidance, guideline methodology, factors that influence hyperbilirubinaemia and kernicterus, factors that influence hyperbilirubinaemia, risk factors for kernicterus andor adverse sequelae, early prediction of serious hyperbilirubinaemia, tests that predict hyperbilirubinaemia, tests that do not predict hyperbilirubinaemia, recognition, visualclinical examination, devices for measuring bilirubin, formal assessment for the causes of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia, tests to detect underlying disease in all babies with hyperbilirubinaemia, formal assessment of babies with prolonged jaundice, treatment, how to manage hyperbilirubinaemia, phototherapy, exchange transfusion, other treatments and satisfaction with treatment.

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