Behavioral changes correlated with brain-stem auditory evoked responses in term infants with moderate hyperbilirubinemia Betty R. Vohr, MD, D e b r a Karp, C a t h e r i n e O ' D e a , D e b r a Darrow, PT, C y n t h i a G a r c i a Coil, PhD, Barry M. Lester, PhD, Lucy Brown, RN, William Oh, ME), a n d William C a s h o r e , MD From the Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island, Brown University Program in Medicine, Providence The purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses that newborn infants with m o d e r a t e serum bilirubin concentrations have depressed Brazelton scores and increased brain-stem c o n d u c t i o n time and that serum bilirubin levels correlate with Brazelton b e h a v i o r scores and brain-stem auditory e v o k e d response changes. Fifty term infants who were enrolled into either a low serum bilirubin group (

Behavioral changes correlated with brain-stem auditory evoked responses in term infants with moderate hyperbilirubinemia.

The purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses that newborn infants with moderate serum bilirubin concentrations have depressed Brazelton scores...
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