Anushi Rajapaksa

Current and emerging technologies for the timely screening and diagnosis of neonatal jaundice

Mercy Thomas, Ronda F Greaves, David G Tingay, Tze Ping Loh, Vera Ignjatovic, Fiona Newall, Michelle Oeum, Thi Chi Tran Mai, Anushi E Rajapaksa

Journal article  |  2022  |  CRITICAL REVIEWS IN CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES

Neonatal jaundice is one of the most common clinical conditions affecting newborns. For most newborns, jaundice is harmless, howev..

A Novel Optical Assay System for Bilirubin Concentration Measurement in Whole Blood

Jean Pierre Ndabakuranye, Anushi E Rajapaksa, Genia Burchall, Shiqiang Li, Steven Prawer, Arman Ahnood

Journal article  |  2022  |  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

As a biomarker for liver disease, bilirubin has been utilized in prognostic scoring systems for cirrhosis. While laboratory-based ..

Detection of Vitamin D Metabolites in Breast Milk: Perspectives and challenges for measurement by Liquid Chromatography Tandem-Mass Spectrometry

Carlie Tuddenham, Ronda F Greaves, Anushi E Rajapaksa, John D Wark, Rosita Zakaria

Journal article  |  2021  |  CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Breast milk is an emerging matrix for vitamin D assessment of breastfed infants and their mothers. It is considered a more reliabl..

Mechanism of bilirubin elimination in urine: insights and prospects for neonatal jaundice

Mercy Thomas, Winita Hardikar, Ronda F Greaves, David G Tingay, Tze Ping Loh, Vera Ignjatovic, Fiona Newall, Anushi E Rajapaksa

Journal article  |  2021  |  CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE

Despite a century of research, bilirubin metabolism and the transport mechanisms responsible for homeostasis of bilirubin in serum..

Practical microcircuits for handheld acoustofluidics

An Huang, William Connacher, Mark Stambaugh, Naiqing Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Jiyang Mei, Aditi Jain, Sravya Alluri, Vincent Leung, Anushi E Rajapaksa, James Friend

Journal article  |  2021  |  LAB ON A CHIP

Acoustofluidics has promised to enable lab-on-a-chip and point-of-care devices in ways difficult to achieve using other methods. P..

Pulmonary Deposition of Radionucleotide-Labeled Palivizumab: Proof-of-Concept Study

Anushi E Rajapaksa, Lien Anh Ha Do, Darren Suryawijaya Ong, Magdy Sourial, Duncan Veysey, Richard Beare, William Hughes, William Yang, Robert J Bischof, Amarin McDonnell, Peter Eu, Leslie Y Yeo, Paul V Licciardi, Edward K Mulholland

Journal article  |  2020  |  FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY

OBJECTIVE: Current prevention and/or treatment options for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections are limited as no vaccine ..

Lung Recruitment Strategies During High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation in Preterm Lambs

Martijn Miedema, Karen E McCall, Elizabeth J Perkins, Regina B Oakley, Prue M Pereira-Fantini, Anushi E Rajapaksa, Andreas D Waldmann, David G Tingay, Anton H van Kaam

Journal article  |  2019  |  FRONTIERS IN PEDIATRICS

Background: High frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) is considered a lung protective ventilation mode in preterm infants only..

Surgery and magnetic resonance imaging increase the risk of hypothermia in infants

Joel M Don Paul, Elizabeth J Perkins, Prue M Pereira-Fantini, Asha Suka, Olivia Farrell, Julia K Gunn, Anushi E Rajapaksa, David G Tingay

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH

AIM: Maintaining normothermia is a tenet of neonatal care. However, neonatal thermal care guidelines applicable to intra-hospital ..

Time to lung aeration during a sustained inflation at birth is influenced by gestation in lambs

Karen E McCall, Andreas D Waldmann, Prue Pereira-Fantini, Regina Oakley, Martijn Miedema, Elizabeth J Perkins, Peter G Davis, Peter A Dargaville, Stephan H Bohm, Raffaele Dellaca, Magdy Sourial, Emanuela Zannin, Anushi E Rajapaksa, Andre Tan, Andy Adler, Inez Frerichs, David G Tingay

Journal article  |  2017  |  PEDIATRIC RESEARCH

BackgroundCurrent sustained lung inflation (SI) approaches use uniform pressures and durations. We hypothesized that gestational-a..

Supraglottic Atomization of Surfactant in Spontaneously Breathing Lambs Receiving Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

Ilaria Milesi, David G Tingay, Anna Lavizzari, Federico Bianco, Emanuela Zannin, Paolo Tagliabue, Fabio Mosca, Maria Luisa Ventura, Anushi Rajapaksa, Elizabeth J Perkins, Don Black, Marco Di Castri, Magdy Sourial, Gerhard Pohlmann, Raffaele L Dellaca

Journal article  |  2017  |  PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

OBJECTIVES: To determine the short-term tolerance, efficacy, and lung deposition of supraglottic atomized surfactant in spontaneou..