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To: GemSeeker who wrote (2113)	5/12/1998 2:10:00 PM
From: Spunky Beaver	Respond to of 5736

<<The posting is simply additional accretive evidence that things are on the right track with CCSI.>> We all have difference standards of evidence I guess.

To: GemSeeker who wrote (2113)	5/13/1998 8:36:00 AM
From: JanyBlueEyes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5736

JAUNDICE & BILIRUBIN REFERENCES lalecheleague.org - Easy to read article about a mother's experience of having an infant with jaundice: "......My husband and I had not noticed our son's jaundice. It was our midwife who noticed a yellowish cast to his skin on a routine thirty-six hour home visit. She suggested that we take him to see a doctor the next day. Early the next morning the doctor walked with us out into the bright Arizona sunshine so that he could get a good look at the baby's color. He poked his skin gently and told us that our baby did look jaundiced......." BASIC LAY DESCRIPTIONS OF JAUNDICE: pathfinder.com@@iiBkpwQAm6s0Km2/ParentTime/Health/jaundce.html - When Jaundice Casts a Pall - What you need to know about newborn jaundice: "Babies are born with more red blood cells than they need. These excess cells, resembling tiny wafers packed with a yellow pigment called bilirubin, are broken down by the body's disposal system. During this process the yellow pigment, bilirubin, is released. This happens every day in our bodies. We don't get yellow because our liver - the master filter - disposes of the excess bilirubin. A newborn's immature liver can't handle the extra bilirubin, resulting in this yellow pigment's settling in the skin and reflecting a yellow color by the third or fourth day after birth..........." www2.medsch.wisc.edu - Jaundice/Hyperbilirubinemia: "Hyper" means high; "emia" means in the blood. Hyperbilirubinemia is a high level of bilirubin in the blood. Jaundice is the yellow color to the skin that is often seen in the first few days after birth. The yellow color is due to bilirubin........." MEDICAL REFERENCES* mssm.edu - Sinai Journal of Medicine on Neonatal Jaundice - Perspectives on Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia - October 1994 Teaching Files - Prepared by Alan Klein, MD, Neonatologist and Clinical Chief of Staff, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California: csmc.edu - Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Healthy Full-Term Infant Extensive Site on Hyperbilirubinemia from a Certified Neonatal Phototherapist Course Online: peponline.com - Comprehensive - covers Hyperbilirubinemia, Treatment & How to manage a Phototherapy Program TESTING NEWBORNS * Message 4304903 - Frequency of Testing - From The American Academy of Pediatrics: .....It is not known at what bilirubin concentration or under what circumstances significant risk of brain damage occurs or when the risk of damage exceeds the risk of treatment. Concentrations considered harmful may vary in different ethnic groups or geographic locations and may be lower outside North America or northern Europe. Reasons for apparent geographic differences in risk for kernicterus are not clear...... techstocks.com - Due Diligence on newborn blood testing: "......So, I contacted several people in the health care industry including medical technologists, hospital medical laboratory supervisors, neo-natal care specialists, pediatricians, and a pharmacist. By law, hospitals are required to do a PKU test on newborns (requires drawing blood). Therefore, no matter how great the CCSI device is, blood will always be drawn from newborns......" techstocks.com - Questions & Answers techstocks.com - Frequency of Testing for Jaundice