RISK FACTORS
This condition causes red blood cells to break down faster than normal, increasing bilirubin production
What is hemolysis
This is the best lighting for assessing newborn jaundice?
What is natural daylight?
This is considered the gold standard test for measuring bilirubin.
What is Total Serum Bilirubin (TSB)
Parents should feed newborns this often to help reduce the risk of severe jaundice.
What is at least 8–12 times in 24 hours?
This maternal blood type is most commonly associated with ABO incompatibility.
What is blood type O
This technique helps identify jaundice by briefly pressing on the skin.
What is blanching the skin over a bony prominence?
This non-invasive screening tool estimates bilirubin using the baby's skin.
What is a Transcutaneous Bilirubin (TcB)?
This is not an appropriate treatment for neonatal jaundice.
What is placing the baby in a sunny window?
This test detects antibodies attached to a newborn's red blood cells.
What is the Direct Antiglobulin Test (DAT) or Direct Coombs test?
This is the preferred tissue in which bilirubin like to deposit?
What is fatty tissue
This term describes how far below the phototherapy threshold the baby's bilirubin is.
What is ΔTSB?
Red variances in the PACG require this.
What is immediate contact with the PCP
Name three risk factors for significant hyperbilirubinemia
What are prematurity, hemolysis, bruising/cephalohematoma, poor feeding, previous sibling requiring phototherapy, or G6PD deficiency?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Assess these parts of the body on babies with darker skin tones
What are the sclera and oral mucosa
DAILY DOUBLE!
True or False: Jaundice appearing in the first 24hrs is normal?
What is False
This condition occurs when unconjugated bilirubin crosses the blood-brain barrier and causes permanent brain injury.
What is kernicterus?
This inherited enzyme deficiency is a well-known cause of hemolysis and severe neonatal jaundice.
What is G6PD deficiency?
The visual progression of newborn jaundice on the infants body?
What is from head to toe
A baby's TSB is 290 µmol/L and the phototherapy threshold is 300 µmol/L. What is the ΔTSB, and what does it tell you?
What is 10 µmol/L below the threshold, meaning the infant is very close to needing phototherapy and requires prompt reassessment?
This early neurological symptom often causes parents to say, "My baby just won't wake up to feed."
What is lethargy?