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 ...

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 ...

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].

COLUMBIA - A new state law went into effect Wednesday that makes it mandatory for all newborns to have a pulse oximetry test before being discharged. Chloe's Law passed in both the Missouri House and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tania Rocchio says she holds her newborn John Carlo tight after she found out he passed his test. Dr. Robert Koppel performed a pulse-oximetry test, which screens for deadly heart problems in newborns ...

Michelle Powell says her daughter Freya looked perfectly healthy, but the pulse oximetry test showed she had a heart defect A mother believes her newborn daughter's life was saved because of a simple ...

Normal blood oxygen level is either 95%-100% SpO2 on an oximeter or 80-100 mm Hg from an ABG test. ABG tests are more accurate than pulse oximeters, which have a ...

TRENTON, NJ (CBS) - Two members of the New Jersey Assembly are proposing a law that would mandate a simple test to be performed on every newborn in the state to help identify children born with a ...