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 ...
My son Jacob was born on April 10, 2012. He appeared to be a healthy newborn. When he was two-days old, his skin turned bluish and the nurse performed pulse oximetry screening on him. Jacob's ...
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 ...
Olivia Easley gave birth to her third child on April 26, 2009. The baby appeared pink and healthy, nursed well and had gained weight by her first doctor's visit. But when the baby, Veronica, was about ...
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].
There was "low but improving uptake" of reporting about the diversity of participants in summary documents for FDA-cleared pulse oximeters after voluntary guidance was issued in 2013, an analysis of ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- VirtuOx, http://virtuox.net/, a global digital health company announces today, CardioCHECK is saving lives by ...
My daughter, Emilee Marie Dunkle, was born with a congenital heart defect called Critical Pulmonary Valvar Stenosis. She was rushed to the NICU at just 8-hours-old and, at 3-days-old, underwent ...