Phototherapy with turquoise versus blue light

F Ebbesen1, G Agati, R Pratesi

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Aalborg, Denmark. Institute of Applied Physics-CNR, Sezione INFM di Firenze, Florence, Italy. u19091@aas.nja.dk

Preterm jaundiced infants were treated by phototherapy with a new turquoise fluorescent lamp. This was more effective in reducing plasma total bilirubin in relation to light irradiance than the ubiquitously used blue fluorescent lamp.

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