ReviewArchives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition2007
Should pulse oximetry be used to screen for congenital heart disease?
Review in Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Oximetry and neonatal examination for the detection of critical congenital heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.F1000Research · 2019Pooled it
- Should Dual Pulse Oximetry Screening Be Used in Neonates? The Insights from the CHOOSE Study.Heart views : the official journal of the Gulf Heart Association · 2026Article
- Pulse Oximetry Screening: Association of State Mandates with Emergency Hospitalizations.Pediatric cardiology · 2023Article
- Clinical Screening for Congenital Heart Disease in Newborns at a Tertiary Care Hospital of a Developing Country.Cureus · 2019Article
- Role of pulse oximetry in detecting critical congenital heart disease among newborns delivered at a high altitude setting in Ethiopia.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2019Article
- Pulse oximetry findings in newborns with antenatally diagnosed congenital heart disease.European journal of pediatrics · 2018Article
- Transposition of the Great Arteries and Coarctation of the Aorta in an Infant Presenting with Bronchiolitis: An incidental finding.Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2017Article
- Implementation of Congenital Heart Diseases Screening at the Bihac Cantonal Hospital.Materia socio-medica · 2017Article
- Modern Strategy for Identification of Congenital Heart Defects in the Neonatal Period.Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2016Article
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- Evaluation of Pulse Oximetry in the Early Detection of Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease in Newborns.The journal of Tehran Heart Center · 2016Article
- Feasibility of implementing pulse oximetry screening for congenital heart disease in a community hospital.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2012Article
- Effectiveness of neonatal pulse oximetry screening for detection of critical congenital heart disease in daily clinical routine--results from a prospective multicenter study.European journal of pediatrics · 2010Article
- Screening newborns for congenital heart disease with pulse oximetry: survey of pediatric cardiologists.Pediatric cardiology · 2009Article
- Birth prevalence of congenital heart disease: A cross-sectional observational study from North India.Annals of pediatric cardiologyArticle
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Abstract
Ten studies (44 969 newborns, 71 severe defects) evaluating the usefulness of neonatal pulse oximetry (PO) screening in timely detection of congenital heart disease (CHD) were reviewed. PO showed a high specificity (99.9-99.99%), and the overall rate of detection of 15 individual defects with PO was 72% (range 46-100%), exceeding that of the clinical examination 58% (9-86%). Similar results were obtained for cyanotic CHD (89% v 69%, respectively). Without PO, discharge of apparently healthy infants with unknown CHD was 5.5 times and 4.1 times more likely in cyanotic CHD and all serious CHD, respectively. The paper describes the technical and practical details of first day and later screening. Diagnosis is reached earliest with first day screening, but it requires more resources. PO screening is not sensitive enough to serve as an independent screen, but along with the clinical examination it helps minimise the morbidity and mortality associated with discharge without diagnosis. Further research is needed for precise delineation of populations that would benefit from PO screening.
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