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.
Author(s): National Collaborating Centre for
Women’s and Children’s Health
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