Pulse oximetry can be performed with disposable or reusable sensors, and hospitals and birthing centers must select the type of sensor that best meets the needs of their facility. 1 The SACHDNC ...

Thangaratinam and colleagues aimed to shed light on the potential predictive value of using pulse oximetry to screen for significant cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD) in newborn infants. One ...

September is Newborn Screening Awareness Month, highlighting the importance of early detection and intervention for newborns. Here, Dr. Joshua Baker, attending physician in genetics, genomics and ...

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. January 13, 2009 — Introducing pulse oximetry screening before discharge improves detection of duct-dependent circulation in congenital heart ...

Masimo study finds less than 1% bias and no skin tone discrepancies in neonatal pulse oximetry accuracy. NeoPODS data shows reliable SpO2 readings with minimal hypoxemia cases across diverse newborn ...

A committee of experts will conduct a study examining the current landscape of newborn screening (NBS) systems, processes, and research in the United States and consider sustainable adoption of ...

Birth defects are the primary cause of early miscarriage, stillbirth, perinatal mortality, and child disability. According to statistics, 800–1.2 million children are born with defects annually in ...

One week after their son was born, Melissa and Cory Berlin of Mayfield, New York, arrived at the pediatrician's office for Colton's first well-baby checkup. The 23-year-old, first-time parents were ...

Newborn screening (NBS) programs in the United States provide a public health service available to all infants regardless of geographic, ethnic, or socioeconomic differences (Boyle et al., 2014; CDC, ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Could improved screening methods for detecting newborn heart defects save more lives? That’s what Mississippi State’s Amirtaha Taebi is using a $600,000 National Science Foundation ...

Although current pulse-oximetry technology cannot detect every cardiac defect, the rate of missed CCHD diagnoses is much higher when screening is based on physical examination alone. Health-care ...