Uses and Limitations of Transcutaneous Bilirubin Measurement
Focus of the Guideline

June 2009
The AAP committee on newborn jaundice set up a program to decrease the frequency of severe hyperbilirubinemia with out increasing anxiety, decreasing breastfeeding, or accruing increased cost and unnecessary treatment.
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- Introduction
- Outline
- Introduction
- Kernicterus
- Historical Information
- Focus of the Guideline
- Key Elements to the Recommendation
- Key Elements to the Recommendation, cont.
- Mayo Study of TcB
- Mayo Study of TcB, cont.
- Mayo Study of TcB: TcB vs. diazo TsB
- Mayo Study of TcB: TcB vs Vitros TsB
- Mayo Study of TcB
- Mayo Study of TcB, cont.
- Mayo Study of TcB, cont.
- Mayo Study of TcB, cont.
- Conclusions
- Conclusions, cont.
- References
- Questions?