Intravenous fluid supplementation vs no fluid supplementation: Proportion of infants who required exchange transfusion
Intravenous fluid supplementation may leads to lower proportion of infants who required exchange transfusion compared with no fluid supplementation (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Intravenous fluid supplementation vs no fluid supplementation Proportion of infants who required exchange transfusion · newborn infants with unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia undergoing phototherapy Intravenous fluid supplementation may leads to lower proportion of infants who required exchange transfusion compared with no fluid supplementation (low certainty). Fluid supplementation for neonatal unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.39 [0.21, 0.71] | 6 studies · 462 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluid supplementation for neonatal unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia 2017 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.