Development of transcutaneous jaundice predictor for the neonates.
- Author:
Pengzhi ZHU
1
;
Hengxin YUAN
;
Zhifeng TAN
;
Guoping ZHU
;
Yongju YI
Author Information
1. Biomedical Engineering, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Algorithms;
Bilirubin;
blood;
Equipment Design;
methods;
Humans;
Infant, Newborn;
Jaundice, Neonatal;
blood;
diagnosis;
Microcomputers;
Photometry;
methods
- From:
Journal of Biomedical Engineering
2011;28(3):592-596
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Neonatal jaundice is a common neonatal disease. Severe jaundices lead to kernicterus that affects intellectual development of infants or even causes death. Timely and early prediction is vital to the treatment and prevention. This paper presents a jaundice predictor, which uses C8051F020 as the core of single-chip microcomputer (SCM) system with prediction algorithms proven by a large number of clinical trials. The jaundice predictor can reduce the incidence rate of jaundice, alleviate the condition of infants with jaundice, improve the quality of perinatal, with predicting pathologic neonatal jaundice effectively and calling attention to the prophylactic treatment. In addition, compared with the existing transcutaneous jaundice meters, the new predictor has a smaller size, a lighter weight, more user-friendly, and easier to use by hand-holding.
