Nursery Notes
Due
to the generosity of a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, babies
born at RHS Hospital will no longer need to experience heelsticks
in order to determine accurate bilirubin levels.
Physicians monitor newborns carefully for signs of jaundice.
Jaundice (yellowing of the skin) is the result of the inability
of the immature liver of an infant to metabolize bilirubin. This
new equipment, the TlcBilitest, utilizes new color science technology
and provides pain free, non-invasive monitoring of bilirubin in
newborns of all races, even those under phototherapy (bili-light).
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of
this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without
helping himself."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
