The use of a simple and affordable skin patch for measurement of transcutaneous bilirubin levels in neonates during phototherapy

• Main Authors: Aditya Kallimath (Author), Suprabha Patnaik (Author), Pradeep Suryawanshi (Author), Rupeshkumar Deshmukh (Author), Nandini Malshe (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundTranscutaneous bilirubin (TcB) measurements during and after phototherapy for hyperbilirubinemia must be performed on unexposed skin. There are commercially made skin patches for this purpose, but they are relatively unavailable in low-resource settings. We devised a simple cotton patch an...