The Role of Phototherapy in the Crash-Cart Approach to Extreme Neonatal Jaundice

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 171-174

  Hansen, Thor Willy Ruud ^a,b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acute bilirubin encephalopathy; Bilirubin; Bilirubin isomers; Kernicterus; Neonatal jaundice; Phototherapy

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRASH CART; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; ISOMERIZATION; KERNICTERUS; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; PHOTOOXIDATION; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; THERAPY EFFECT;

HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; PHOTOTHERAPY;

EID: 79957958463     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2011.02.012     Document Type: Review

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