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The Newborn Foundation is credited with persuading the United States Department of Health and Human Services to formally recommend universal pulse oximetry screening for congenital heart defects in every child born in the United States. [1] Annamarie Saarinen co-founded the Newborn Foundation in 2010 after her daughter, Eve Saarinen, was nearly ...
The Apgar score is a quick way for health professionals to evaluate the health of all newborns at 1 and 5 minutes after birth and in response to resuscitation. [1] It was originally developed in 1952 by an anesthesiologist at Columbia University, Virginia Apgar, to address the need for a standardized way to evaluate infants shortly after birth.
The following conditions and disorders were recommended as a "core panel" by the 2005 report of the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG). [1] The incidences reported below are from the full report, though the rates may vary in different populations.
Newborn screening programs initially used screening criteria based largely on criteria established by JMG Wilson and F. Jungner in 1968. [6] Although not specifically about newborn population screening programs, their publication, Principles and practice of screening for disease proposed ten criteria that screening programs should meet before being used as a public health measure.
Blue baby syndrome can refer to conditions that cause cyanosis, or blueness of the skin, in babies as a result of low oxygen levels in the blood. This term has traditionally been applied to cyanosis as a result of:. [1] Cyanotic heart disease, which is a category of congenital heart defect that results in low levels of oxygen in the blood. [2]
According to a June 27 news release from New Mexico State Police, around 10:45 p.m. on the night of the shooting, the deputy responded to check on a person walking in the median of U.S. 70, just ...
Authorities have released the name of a Florida sheriff's deputy killed in what officials called an ambush shooting that wounded two other deputies as they tried to reach him after all responded ...
A central Florida deputy was killed and two others injured when they were ... as 28-year-old Master Deputy Sheriff Bradley Michael Link, according to Lake County Sheriff’s Lt. John Herrell ...