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Phototherapy for neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia: the importance of dose.

The management of neonatal jaundice can be made much easier using simple methods that increase the radiant energy in the range 420 to 480 nm. Two groups of infants being treated for physiological jaundice during a period of 6 months were compared. The first group received treatment from two unmodified phototherapy units and the second from two units in which the horizontal frames housing the tube lights were lowered, thus providing a higher 'dose' of phototherapy.

Radiation under phototherapy and its relationship to clinical effectiveness in moderately severe neonatal jaundice.

Radiation under four commercially available phototherapy units was measured over the visual spectrum and demonstrated that between 69 and 87 per cent of the radiation was irrelevant to the photodegradation of bilirubin. When infants with moderately severe physiological jaundice were exposed to three of the same phototherapy units under the same conditions there was no demonstrable difference in the apparent rate of decline of serum bilirubin or in length of treatment required.

Maternal plasma alpha-fetoprotein and low birthweight: a prospective study throughout pregnancy.

Maternal plasma alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) was measured serially between 15 weeks gestation and term in 520 patients. Thirty-seven of these women were delivered of normal singleton infants with birthweights less than 2.5 kg.

A G-band study of chromosomes in liveborn infants.

The results of a chromosome survey of 3993 liveborn infants, the majority of which have been studied using G-banding, are reported. The frequency of all types of chromosome abnormalities detected was similar to that found in previous newborn surveys, which were carried out on different socio-economic structure, but the incidence of aneuploid chromosome abnormalities was comparable in the two localities.

Low arylsulphatase A activity in a family without metachromatic leukodystrophy.

A low arylsulphatase A activity was noted in the leukocytes and cultured skin fibroblasts of a child without any other symptoms of metachromatic leukodystrophy. Although the mother had a level of arylsulphatase commensurate with heterozygosity for the classical metachromatic leukodystrophy gene, the father had a variant gene giving an unusually low in vitro level of this enzyme. In combination (the proband), these two genes gave rise to a very low in vitro activity without any apparent disease.

Prevention of infection in nurseries for the newborn.

Prevention of infection in nurseries involves consideration of the design of hospitals, wards and equipment, the study of nursing and domestic procedures, the monitoring of environmental flora and the planning of antiseptic and antibiotic policies. These subjects cannot be considered in isolation from each other and are most suitably managed by a Control of Infection Committee. Ultimately the safety of infants in nurseries rests upon the degree to which each individual involved in their care pays attention to the agreed policies of general and personal hygiene.