Transcutaneous bilirubin reliability during and after phototherapy depending on skin color

Conclusions: Our study supports the reliability of cTcB to assess SB during and after phototherapy, with differences among skin tones after the treatment. The use of cTcB and Neomar ’s scale during and mainly after phototherapy may help reduce the number of blood samples required.What is Known:• Controversies exist on the reliability of jaundice meters during and after phototherapy in covered skin. Only a few studies have analyzed their accuracy in multiethnic populations, but none has used a validated neonatal skin color scale.What is New:• We verified correlation between serum and transcutaneous bilirubin in covered skin in a multiethnic population depending on skin color based on our own validated neonatal skin color scale during and after phototherapy.
Source: European Journal of Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research