Investigation of Newborn Hyperbilirubinemia: Helping Family Physicians Indentify Newborns at Risk

Overview

Journal Can Fam Physician

Specialties General Medicine
Public Health

Date 2011 Jan 14

PMID 21229120

Authors

V Rachlis

P Petryshen

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Abstract

The trend to early neonatal discharge underscores the need to detect and manage neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. In a retrospective study, 84 charts from newborns were audited for clinical hyperbilirubinemia. Jaundice was recorded for 29% of the newborns, 92% of cases appearing after the second day. Audits of additional 257 charts indicated that neonates delivered by cesarean section were twice as likely to develop jaundice.

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