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 ...

Pulse oximeters used to test blood oxygen levels, an increasingly common precaution during the COVID-19 pandemic, may be giving a false sense of security according to an FDA warning. One of the ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday bolstered its recommendations for pulse oximeter testing following public uproar over how inaccurate readings led to different medical care for patients of ...

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 ...

Small hearts can oftentimes conceal big health and medical challenges, especially when it comes to critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). As the parent of a baby born with this condition, I know ...

When a baby is born with critical congenital heart disease, early identification and intervention of the birth defect is critical to the child’s outcome. Three out of 1,000 newborns are born with CCHD ...

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].

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 ...

Pulse oximetry screening (POS) is an effective tool to detect critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) in asymptomatic term infants, but its value in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) requires ...

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Although use of pulse oximetry in hospitalized children with respiratory infections is common, the data supporting its use are limited. Recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2006 ...

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