228 Neonatal Pulse Oximetry Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease
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Pulse oximetry screening for congenital heart disease.
The recent paper by Ewer et al 1 and an accompanying editorial 2 in the Lancet raised the question of universal pulse oximetry screening of newborn infants on the postnatal ward prior to discharge. In the Republic of Ireland there are 75,000 births annually, distributed across nineteen maternity units. We surveyed all of these units regarding the use of oxygen saturation screening on the postna...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-200409000-00251