Limitations and opportunities of transcutaneous bilirubin measurements

Pediatrics

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 689-694

  Bosschaart, Nienke ^a   Kok, Joke H ^a   Newsum, Astrid M ^a   Ouweneel, Dagmar M ^a,b   Mentink, Rosaline ^a   Van Leeuwen, Ton G ^a,b   Aalders, Maurice C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hyperbilirubinemia; Jaundice; Kernicterus; Newborn; Transcutaneous bilirubin measurement

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ARTICLE; BILIRUBINOMETER; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD VOLUME; BLOOD VOLUME FRACTION; CAPILLARY BLOOD; CHROMATOPHORE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ETHNICITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INTRAVASCULAR SPACE; KERNICTERUS; LABORATORY DEVICE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; ORGAN SIZE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE LEVEL; TRANSCUTANEOUS BILIRUBINOMETRY;

EID: 84859400517     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-2586     Document Type: Article

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