Non-Invasive Determination of Hemoglobin by Digital Photography of Palpebral Conjunctiva

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-111

  Suner, Selim ^a,b   Crawford, Gregory ^b   McMurdy, John ^b   Jay, Gregory ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

anemia; conjunctiva; digital photography; hemoglobin; mass casualty incident; non invasive

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAMERA; CELL COUNT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONJUNCTIVA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIGITAL IMAGING; EMERGENCY WARD; EYELID; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONJUNCTIVA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINOMETRY; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547568234     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Stoltzfus R.J., Edward-Raj A., Dreyfuss M.L., et al. Clinical pallor is useful to detect severe anemia in populations where anemia is prevalent and severe. J Nutr 129 (1999) 1675-1681
2. Kalter H.D., Burnham G., Kolstad P.R., et al. Evaluation of clinical signs to diagnose anaemia in Uganda and Bangladesh, in areas with and without malaria. Bull World Health Organ 75 Suppl 1 (1997) 103-111
3. Hung O.L., Kwon N.S., Cole A.E., et al. Evaluation of the physician's ability to recognize the presence or absence of anemia, fever, and jaundice. Acad Emerg Med 7 (2000) 146-156
4. Sari M., de Pee S., Martini E., et al. Estimating the prevalence of anaemia: a comparison of three methods. Bull World Health Organ 79 (2001) 506-511
5. Luby S.P., Kazembe P.N., Redd S.C., et al. Using clinical signs to diagnose anaemia in African children. Bull World Health Organ 73 (1995) 477-482
6. Sheth T.N., Choudhry N.K., Bowes M., and Detsky A.S. The relation of conjunctival pallor to the presence of anemia. J Gen Intern Med 12 (1997) 455
7. Ekunwe E.O. Predictive value of conjunctival pallor in the diagnosis of anaemia. West Afr J Med 16 (1997) 246-250
8. Weber M.W., Kellingray S.D., Palmer A., Jaffar S., Mulholland E.K., and Greenwood B.M. Pallor as a clinical sign of severe anaemia in children: an investigation in the Gambia. Bull World Health Organ 75 Suppl 1 (1997) 113-118
9. van den Broek N.R., Ntonya C., Mhango E., and White S.A. Diagnosing anaemia in pregnancy in rural clinics: assessing the potential of the Haemoglobin Colour Scale. Bull World Health Organ 77 (1999) 15-21
10. Montresor A., Albonico M., Khalfan N., et al. Field trial of a haemoglobin colour scale: an effective tool to detect anaemia in preschool children. Trop Med Int Health 5 (2000) 129-133
11. Getaneh T., Girman T., Belachew T., and Teklemariam S. The utility of pallor detecting anemia in under five years old children. Ethiop Med J 38 (2000) 77-84
12. Chowdhury M.E., Chongsuvivatwong V., Geater A.F., Akhter H.H., and Winn T. Taking a medical history and using a colour scale during clinical examination of pallor improves detection of anaemia. Trop Med Int Health 7 (2002) 133-139
13. Valeiras C., Calvo A., Roca A., Gude F., and Gonzalez Quintela A. Value of touch in the diagnosis of fever and of paleness in the diagnosis of anemia. Observational study in adults. An Med Interna 19 (2002) 120-125
14. Spinelli M.G., Souza J.M., Souza S.B., and Sesoko E.H. Reliability and validity of palmer and conjunctival pallor for anemia detection purposes. Rev Saude Publica 37 (2003) 404-408
15. Lackritz E.M., Campbell C.C., Ruebush II T.K., et al. Effect of blood transfusion on survival among children in a Kenyan hospital. Lancet 340 (1992) 524-528
16. Llewellyn-Jones D. Severe anaemia in pregnancy (as seen in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). Aust N Z J Obstet and Gynaecol 5 (1965) 191-197
17. Gardiner G.W., Edgerton V.R., Senewiratne B., Barnard R.J., and Ohira Y. Physical work capacity and metabolic stress in subjects with iron deficiency anemia. Am J Clin Nutr 30 (1977) 910-917
18. Nadeau R.G., and Groner W. The role of a new noninvasive imaging technology in the diagnosis of anemia. J Nutr 131 (2001) 1610S-1614S
19. Sanchez-Carrillo C.I., Ramirez-Sanchez T.J., Zambrana-Castaneda M., and Selwyn B.J. Test of a noninvasive instrument for measuring hemoglobin concentration. Int J Technol Assess Health Care 5 (1989) 659-667
20. Kanashima H., Yamane T., Takubo T., Kamitani T., and Hino M. Evaluation of noninvasive hemoglobin monitoring for hematological disorders. J Clin Lab Anal 19 (2005) 1-5
21. Kost G.J., Tran N.K., Tuntideelert M., Kulrattanamaneeporn S., and Peungposop N. Katrina, the tsunami and point-of-care testing: optimizing rapid response diagnosis in disasters. Am J Clin Pathol 126 (2006) 513-520