Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Test for heart defects could be required in Missouri, Illinois hospitals |
| Authors: |
By:Blythe Bernhard; bbernhard@post-dispatch.com; 314-340-8129 |
| Source: |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), March 14, 2013 Health Online, 3pp |
| Abstract: |
About 300 babies born each year in the U.S. are sent home from the hospital with serious heart defects that went undetected by ultrasounds during pregnancy and examinations after birth. Legislation in Missouri and Illinois would require hospitals to give every newborn a pulse oximetry test to measure their blood oxygen levels... |
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