Phototherapy Chart 

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/114/1/297

Physiologic jaundice in healthy term newborns follows a typical pattern. The average total serum bilirubin level usually peaks at 5 to 6 mg per dL (86 to 103 μ mol per L) on the third to fourth day of life and then declines over the first week after birth.” AAFP 2002

**The phototherapy chart / curve above (Bhutani curve) covers only the first 7 days.

Great AAFP article

https://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0215/p599.html

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