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Developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health. These treatment threshold graphs accompany the clinical guideline: ‘Neonatal jaundice’. They are also available as an implementation tool. (Both are available online at www.nice.org.uk/guidance/CG98)
Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance. This guideline covers diagnosing and treating jaundice, which is caused by increased levels of bilirubin in the blood, in newborn babies (neonates).
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May 19, 2010 · Healthcare professionals should consult their local pathology laboratory when interpreting threshold tables. Recommendations. This guideline includes recommendations on: providing information to parents or carers; managing and treating hyperbilirubinaemia; measuring and monitoring bilirubin thresholds before and during phototherapy
Mar 6, 2014 · These are tables or charts that help healthcare professionals to implement treatment thresholds for phototherapy and exchange transfusion in accordance with NICE's guideline on jaundice in newborn babies.
relevant treatment threshold for their postnatal age, and for all subsequent measurements do not use an icterometer. How to manage hyperbilirubinaemia Use the bilirubin level to determine the management of hyperbilirubinaemia in all babies (see threshold table1 and treatment threshold graphs2). 1 The threshold table is on page 10 of this guideline.
Treatment 1. Infants, whose serum bilirubin has reached, or exceeded, the threshold level should commence phototherapy. 2. The NICE SBR treatment tables or charts from NICE for the appropriate gestational age should be used for the interpretation of SBR values.
Treatment threshold graphs for each week of gestation are available in all relevant clinical areas. These graphs have been modified and improved for ease of use and should be the first choice method of
the serum bilirubin is at a level that is within 50 micromol/litre below the threshold for which exchange transfusion is indicated after 72 hours (see treatment threshold chart, appendix 1). the bilirubin level fails to respond to single phototherapy (that is, the level of serum bilirubin continues to rise, or does not fall, within 6 hours of ...
Health for allowing the GDG to adapt their Excel spreadsheet in developing the treatment threshold graphs included in this guideline. •Tony Crowley for his work developing the BiliWheel
