Abstract
A new, still to be improved, neonatal phototherapy (PT) device - BiliblanketTM (BB), Ohmeda, USA - has been developed in the form of a fiber optic system, whose radically different method of application, directly to the baby's skin, implies some decrease in the usual PT side-effects (insensible water loss, birth weight decrement) and less physical and psychological stress to the jaundiced neonate. To compare its efficiency to conventional PT, 208 healthy preterm infants presenting non-haemolytic hyperbilirubinemia in the first four days of life - with no statistically difference in gestational age, birth weight, age and bilirubin (BR) levels at onset of PT - were subdivided at random in four study groups receiving respectively fiber optic (BB) PT, Special Blue (SB), White (DA) and Green (G) fluorescent lamp PT. Results (values represent mean ± SEM) are reported in the following tab.
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