Hyperbilirubinemia Screening

The Nova Scotia Hyperbilirubinemia Guideline Implementation Working Group collaborated on a provincial strategy for implementing the Canadian Pediatric Society's (CPS) Position Statement and Guidelines for Detection, Management and Prevention of Hyperbilirubinemia in Term and Late Preterm Newborn Infants. The following tools have been developed and others adapted from the CPS Guidelines to assist District Health Authorities and the IWK with this implementation.

	Procedure for Routine Bilirubin Screening (revised May 2010)
	Decision Guide for Total Serum Bilirubin Screening (revised Oct 2009)
	Conventional Phototherapy Graph (revised 2009)
	Intensive Phototherapy Graph (revised 2008)