The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (American Heart Association) has developed treatment recommendations outlining time-based SpO2 targets that reflect a healthy newborn’s oxygenation ...

Given the extent of disagreement among observers regarding the color of infants observed under identical conditions (i.e., via video recording), the study authors concluded that real-world visual ...

Although current pulse-oximetry technology cannot detect every cardiac defect, the rate of missed CCHD diagnoses is much higher when screening is based on physical examination alone. Health-care ...

To evaluate the implementation of early screening for critical congenital heart defects (CCHDs) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and potential exclusion of sub-populations from universal ...

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 ...