Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Transcutaneous Bilirubinometry: Taking the Guesswork out of Jaundice Assessment
(Michael Kaplan and Cathy Hammerman, Department of Neonatology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
Chapter 2. Physics and Biology of Transcutaneous Bilirubin Assay
(Daniele De Luca, Anton V. Malko, Ricardo Moreno Alonso de Celada, Raul de Lucas Laguna and William D. Engle, PICU & Lab of Clinical Molecular Biology, University Hospital “A.Gemelli” – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy and others)
Chapter 3. Devices for Non-Invasive Measurement of Bilirubin
(Daniele De Luca and William D. Engle, PICU & Lab of Clinical Molecular Biology, University Hospital “A.Gemelli” – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy and others)
Chapter 4. Transcutaneous Bilirubin Measurement in Late Preterm and Term Neonates
(William D. Engle, Gregory L. Jackson and Daniele De Luca, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA and others)
Chapter 5. Transcutaneous Bilirubin Nomograms
(Daniele De Luca, Gregory L. Jackson and William D. Engle, PICU & Lab of Clinical Molecular Biology, University Hospital “A.Gemelli” – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy and others)
Chapter 6. Use of Transcutaneous Bilirubinometry in Preterm Neonates
(Daniele De Luca, Gregory L. Jackson and William D. Engle, PICU & Lab of Clinical Molecular Biology, University Hospital “A.Gemelli” – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy and others)
Chapter 7. Transcutaneous Bilirubinometry in Special Settings
(Daniele De Luca and Hendrik J. Vreman, PICU & Lab of Clinical Molecular Biology, University Hospital “A.Gemelli” – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy and others)
Chapter 8. Transcutaneous Bilirubinometry in Very Small Animals
(Hendrik J. Vreman and Ronald J. Wong, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA)
Chapter 9. Transcutaneous Bilirubinometry and Public Health Policy
(Daniele De Luca, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit & Lab of Clinical Molecular Biology, University Hospital “A. Gemelli” – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy)
Appendix
Index
