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 ...

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 ...

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 has been recognized as a promising screening tool for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). The aim of this research was to study the feasibility of implementation in a community ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stakeholders want the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to align its guidance more closely with a pulse oximetry standard being developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO ...

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].

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 ...

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 ...

A Grade 11 student won Canada's top teen innovation award in science by correcting a 35-year-old flaw in pulse oximeters that ...

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 ...