Affiliation:
1. The Institute of Child Health, Grant Medical College and J J Hospital, Bombay 400 008, India
Abstract
We studied the frequency of jaundice, bilirubin estimations, phototherapy administration and exchange transfusions performed at 5 year intervals (1981, 1986 and 1991) among babies admitted to special care unit and those managed in postnatal ward, showing a decline which was significant except for the number of exchange transfusions performed. The number of term babies with serum bilirubin >15 mg/dl and preterm babies with serum bilirubin > 10 mg/dl also declined significantly without prophylactic phototherapy or pharmacotherapy.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health