Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Hyperbilirubinaemia is the commonest morbidity in preterm neonates, most of whom are of very low birthweight (VLBW ≤1500g) babies
All the paired readings were analysed for correlation between transcutaneous bilirubinometer (TcB) and total serum bilirubin (TSB)
If any VLBW neonate who was part of the study showed signs of jaundice, a serum sample was obtained by heel prick and at the same time (+/-30miutes) TcB value was obtained by using Drager JM-103 transcutaneous bilirubinometer
Summary
Hyperbilirubinaemia is the commonest morbidity in preterm neonates, most of whom are of very low birthweight (VLBW ≤1500g) babies. Transcutaneous measurement of bilirubin by a device called transcutaneous bilirubinometer (TcB) is an effective alternative tool to predict neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in late preterm and term neonates, most of whom have birthweights >2000g. Blood sampling to estimate SB is the commonest investigation done in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)[6]. This is frequently performed by heel prick, a painful procedure with long-term sequelae. We used “Drager JM-103” for current study These devices correlated well with SB in term and near-term neonates in various studies[1,2,8,9,10]. The accuracy of TcB devices for estimating SB in preterm (≤35 weeks) VLBW neonates remains unclear[12,13,14,15]
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