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- Title
Critical heart defects—the diagnostic challenge.
- Authors
Meberg, Alf
- Abstract
Infants with potenitally life threatening congenital heart defects (CHDs) are discharged from hospital after birth with the condition unrecognized. Improved prenatal ultrasound imaging and universal pulse oximetry screening of babies in nurseries are strategies that probably most would contribute to avoid such defects to be missed. Conclusion: In general combining first day of life pulse oximetry, clinical examination and echocardiography before discharge in suspect cases is a rational strategy for early postnatal detection of heart defects. Universal echocardiography screening of newborns may be too resource consuming to be cost-effective.
- Subjects
CONGENITAL heart disease; HEART abnormalities; ULTRASOUND imaging centers; PRENATAL care; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; OXIMETRY; PATIENTS
- Publication
Acta Paediatrica, 2008, Vol 97, Issue 11, p1480
- ISSN
0803-5253
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1651-2227.2008.00975.x