[ impact of Gluconate calcium on hypocalcaemia after blood exchange in hyperbilirubinemia newborns]

ABSTRACT

Background: blood exchange is one of therapeutic methods for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. But this method has some complications. One of these complications is hypocalcemia. In some studies, for avoiding from this problem, calcium gluconate injection is recomm ended. But in some studies there was any important difference between calcium treated group and the group without calcium prescription. Due to lack of documented evidences about prevalence of this complication, this study was conducted to compare the result of using calcium gluconate injection in the incidence of hypocalcemia and hyper calcemia