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Volume 8, Issue 2
August 2002

Jaundiced Brain
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Children who suffered brain damage from neonatal jaundice may have a viable Cause of medical malpractice Action, particularly if they were born in the 1990s

The more relaxed jaundice guidelines did not apply with these risk factors:

1. Need for resuscitation at birth

2. Preterm (premature) or small

3. Hemolytic disease

4. Jaundice within 24 hours of birth

5. Sepsis

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