Newest screen for newborns will indicate heart problems
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
About one in every 120 babies are born with congenital heart disease (CHD), of which about 25 percent is critical, requiring special care early in life. Now a group of physicians and scientists has published an important article that recommends strategies for national screening for critical CHD, using a simple, noninvasive test called pulse oximetry that measures oxygen in blood.