This article looks at how technology for delivering light therapy varies, considers the safety aspects and compares the devices available and in use in the nhs today, against the identified effective criteria. Firefly is a phototherapy device designed specifically to allow rural hospitals with limited resources and inexperienced staff to successfully treat otherwise healthy newborns for jaundice. Overhead phototherapy devices, ventilators, iv poles and other similar types of equipment take up a large volume of storage space due to their height and overall footprint.

An optimal device should not have irregular Ò€¦