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 ...
Three types of positive screens (screening ‘failures’) are possible that lead to further investigation for the presence of critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) by careful evaluation of the infant ...
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 ...
Chances are pretty good you’ve had a glowing probe clipped to your fingertip or earlobe in some clinic or doctor’s office. If you have, then you’re familiar with pulse oximetry, a cheap and ...
Covid-19 made pulse oximeters an even more important tool for measuring the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream than they had been before. Widely used in hospitals and health systems, these small ...
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced the findings of an abstract presented last Saturday at the Society for Technology in Anesthesia 2022 Annual Meeting, which ...
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 ...
Harry Mudd and Kimberly Jones-Mudd hold their nine-month-old Moria in Sicklerville, New Jersey, on June 29, 2013. A pulse oximetry test revealed a heart defect in the infant that was corrected with ...
Pulse oximetry is an unreliable method for spotting people suffering with carbon monoxide poisoning and it should not be used for this purpose, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis ...
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