Int. J. Neonatal Screen. 2019, 5(1), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijns5010014
Pulse Oximetry Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Defects: A Life-Saving Test for All Newborn Babies
Andrew K. Ewer 1,2
1
Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
2
Neonatal Unit, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham B15 2TG, UK
Received: 31 January 2019 / Accepted: 11 February 2019 / Published: 12 February 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neonatal Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Defects)
Note: In lieu of an abstract, this is an excerpt from the first page.
Excerpt
Congenital heart defects (CHD) are the commonest congenital malformations and remain a major cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in the developed world [...] View Full-Text
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
Share & Cite This Article
MDPI and ACS Style
Ewer, A.K. Pulse Oximetry Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Defects: A Life-Saving Test for All Newborn Babies. Int. J. Neonatal Screen. 2019, 5, 14.
Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.
Article Metrics
Comments
[Return to top]
Int. J. Neonatal Screen.
EISSN 2409-515X
Published by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
RSS
E-Mail Table of Contents Alert