The relationship of the level of bilirubin determined by the non-invasive portable automatic analyzer «Bilitest AGF-02» and the total bilirubin concentration in blood serum determined by the standard biochemical method in full-term newborns and late premature infants

• Anna V. Skurikhina
• Anna V. Degtyareva

Abstract

Due to early discharge of newborns from maternity homes, it is necessary to settle the issue of improving the quality of predicting threatening hyperbilirubinemia. The use of devices for bedside non-invasive measurement of bilirubin concentration in the skin can help to solve the problem and determine the tactics of management of newborns with threatening hyperbilirubinemia.

The article describes a prospective examination of 810 newborns, conducted by the use of a device of domestic production "Bilitest". The results report that a moderate correlation of transcutaneous bilirubin index indicators of the "Bilitest" device with the concentration of bilirubin in the blood serum for transcutaneous bilirubin index below 260 was found. It calls into a question the predictive value of measuring transcutaneous bilirubin index done by this device.

Keywords:hyperbilirubinemia, transcutaneous measurement of bilirubin, Bilitest

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