Changes in skin temperature of hyperbilirubinemic newborns under phototherapy: Conventional versus fiberoptic device

American Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 439-443

  Pezzati, Marco ^a,b   Fusi, Franco ^b   Dani, Carlo ^b   Piva, Daniele ^b   Bertini, Giovanna ^b   Rubaltelli, Firmino F ^b  

^a CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conventional phototherapy; Fiberoptic phototherapy; Newborn

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACK; BDELLOVIBRIO; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; FIBER OPTICS; FOREHEAD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG; NEWBORN; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETER;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; MALE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036865732     PISSN: 07351631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-36839     Document Type: Article

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