The researchers found that using the current AAP algorithm, 99.96% of infants passed screening. Of the infants who failed, 18 had an initial saturation of HealthDay News — Critical congenital heart ...

In 43 states, legislators have enacted laws or regulations and hospitals have issued guidelines that support screening newborns for critical congenital heart defects (CCHD), but despite the ...

In the wake of the HHS Secretary’s recommendation that screening for CCHDs be added to RUSP for newborns, it is the responsibility of individual states to implement screening programs through ...

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today the CE marking of Eve™, a critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) newborn screening application, for the Rad-97™ Pulse ...

Noting that while “developed countries have abundant research on pulse oximetry screening” for CCHD, “there are few studies in developing countries,” Dr. CR Gunaratne and colleagues sought to study ...

(HealthDay News) — Universal critical congenital heart defect (CCHD) screening is expected to detect a considerable number of nonsyndromic CCHD cases, but a similar number of false-negative screenings ...

(KUTV) Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) affects the lives and families of approximately 10,000 babies born in the United States every year. While many of these babies will be identified by ...

Some US newborns still do not receive recommended screening for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) or hearing loss, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

Masimo today announced the results of a prospective study published in the International Journal of Neonatal Screening in which researchers in Marrakesh, Morocco, conducted the first Moroccan study on ...

In addition, Eve simplifies the CCHD screening process by providing visual instructions, animations, and a detailed, easy-to-interpret display of screening results. The ability to label results with ...

WASHINGTON - (June 4, 2020) - A distinguished panel of medical experts, state and federal health officials, and congenital heart disease parent advocates published recommended updates to the current ...

With a growing evidence base to support pulse oximetry as a noninvasive method for detecting CCHD, the momentum for universal screening has gained wide acceptance. A multi­disciplinary working group ...