TY - JOUR T1 - Home phototherapy in the United Kingdom JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F282 LP - F282 DO - 10.1136/adc.2003.034868 VL - 89 IS - 3 AU - M Walls AU - A Wright AU - P Fowlie AU - L Irvine AU - R Hume Y1 - 2004/05/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/89/3/F282.2.abstract N2 - Although successful home treatment of neonatal jaundice using fibre-optic phototherapy units has been reported elsewhere,1,2 we are not aware of any such provision in the United Kingdom. We have introduced a regional home phototherapy programme in Tayside, Scotland and wonder if our initial experience would be of interest to others.Before introducing the service, hospital and community midwives undertook training covering inclusion criteria (physiological jaundice in well, term infants), the treatment protocol, equipment use (Biliblanket, Ohmeda), and the assessment of parental competence. The protocol conditions were: a daily capillary … ER -