In an alert issued to the nearly 5, 000 hospitals it evaluates, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations said doctors are seeing a re-emergence of a rare condition called kernicterus.
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Kernicterus is believed to have been somewhat common in the 1940s and'50s, before the development of a jaundice treatment called exchange transfusion, which replaces a newborn's blood with adult blood.
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Kernicterus is not monitored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but an informal physicians'registry suggests that about 90 cases and three deaths have occurred since 1984, said Dr . Jeffrey Maisels.
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In an alert to be issued Wednesday to the nearly 5, 000 hospitals it evaluates, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations said doctors are seeing a re-emergence of a condition called kernicterus.
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In an alert issued to the nearly 5, 000 hospitals it evaluates, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations said doctors are seeing a re-emergence of a rare condition called kernicterus in newborns.
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But topping the debate is whether all newborns should start getting a simple, US $ 1 blood test to predict who's at risk for severe jaundice and the brain-damaging condition, called kernicterus.
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The pediatrician said that, although her illness prevented a definitive diagnosis, there was a possibility that she was mentally retarded and that the brain dysfunction kernicterus might be present, bolstering her father's conclusion that she was severely retarded.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations issued a warning last year that short hospital stays seemed to be contributing to a re-emergence of a brain-damaging condition called kernicterus, which is brought on by severe, untreated jaundice.
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Kernicterus is not monitored by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but an informal physicians'registry suggests that about 90 cases have occurred since 1984, said Dr . Jeffrey Maisels, who heads an American Academy of Pediatrics subcommittee that is revising 1994 guidelines for treating jaundice.
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