WASHINGTON – It’s every new parent’s nightmare: a healthy baby goes home from the hospital and within days turns blue and struggles to breathe. These infants have congenital heart disease — the most ...

September 27, 2011 — Newborn screening, using pulse oximetry, for a group of heart conditions will be recommended for inclusion in state programs, now that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen ...

Pulse oximetry has been recognized as a promising screening tool for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). The aim of this research was to study the feasibility of implementation in a community ...

Small hearts can oftentimes conceal big health and medical challenges, especially when it comes to critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). As the parent of a baby born with this condition, I know ...

May 1, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — A new meta-analysis with data from almost 230 000 newborns shows that pulse oximetry is highly specific for detection of critical congenital heart defects [1].

Diagnosis of congenital heart disease in newborns is sometimes delayed until after hospital discharge, increasing the risk of illness and death. A 2009 scientific statement from the American Academy ...

When a baby is born with critical congenital heart disease, early identification and intervention of the birth defect is critical to the child’s outcome. Three out of 1,000 newborns are born with CCHD ...

Acknowledging the disparity in pulse oximetry implicates a $2 billion industry that has faced stricter regulations in recent years in an attempt to address bias in the development and testing of these ...

Pulse oximetry, a simple test for blood oxygen saturation, has the potential to detect congenital cardiac abnormalities in newborn babies that might be missed by antenatal ultrasonography and neonatal ...

Reports of race, ethnicity, or skin tone occurred 320 times in 12.5% of 767 FDA summary documents that discussed pulse oximeter performance testing from 1996 to 2024, reported Kadija Ferryman, PhD, of ...

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In Pennsylvania, newborns are screened for more than 40 conditions, but only six of these screenings are mandatory according to Dr. Robert Cicco, the associate director of the neonatal intensive care ...