All newborn infants are at risk for newborn jaundice, which when unmonitored or untreated can progress to excessive bilirubin levels. Because newborn infants are discharged as healthy from well ...

These evidence-based and consensus-driven guidelines should be institutionalized for the safer management of newborn jaundice. Occurrence of extreme hyperbilirubinemia (bilirubin levels > 25 mg/dl ...

This is called jaundice. Newborn jaundice occurs when a baby has high levels of bilirubin in the blood. Bilirubin is a yellow substance that the body creates when it replaces old red blood cells.

Increased serum levels of conjugated as well as unconjugated bilirubin and abnormal retention of bromsulfalein are findings resembling those in patients with chronic idiopathic jaundice.

In newborn babies, jaundice is so common as to be termed physiological. It affects around 60% of term babies and around 80% ...

Most infants born between 35 weeks gestation and full term need no treatment for jaundice. Rarely, an unusually high blood level of bilirubin can place a newborn at risk of brain damage ...