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Universal Screening for CCHD in Saudi Arabia: The Road to a ‘State of the Art’ Program
Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) has been defined as structural heart defects that are usually associated with hypoxia in the newborn period and have potential for significant morbidity and mortality early in life. CCHD has been estimated to be present in ∼3 in 1000 live births, including Sa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7422967/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33073011 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijns6010013 |
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author | AlAql, Fahad Khaleel, Huda Peter, Vetha |
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description | Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) has been defined as structural heart defects that are usually associated with hypoxia in the newborn period and have potential for significant morbidity and mortality early in life. CCHD has been estimated to be present in ∼3 in 1000 live births, including Saudi Arabia. Pulse Oximetry Screening (POS) is a highly specific and moderately sensitive test for detecting CCHD with very low false-positive rates. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is among high-income countries with a population of more than 33 million and more than 600,000 annual live births. In 2015, the Universal Screening Program for CCHD using Pulse Oximetry was approved in Saudi Arabia. It is expected that any new national program will undergo a learning curve and face many challenges. We believe that developing countries may face different challenges during implementation of such national projects, but the success achieved by Saudi Arabia in implementing the program was mainly due to good preparation before launching the project and advancements in the use of the technology involved in this project. Since starting the universal CCHD screening in 2016, more than 900,000 babies have been screened in Saudi Arabia and many lives have been saved using this safe, non-invasive, inexpensive, and reasonably sensitive test. |
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spelling | pubmed-74229672020-10-15 Universal Screening for CCHD in Saudi Arabia: The Road to a ‘State of the Art’ Program AlAql, Fahad Khaleel, Huda Peter, Vetha Int J Neonatal Screen Review Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) has been defined as structural heart defects that are usually associated with hypoxia in the newborn period and have potential for significant morbidity and mortality early in life. CCHD has been estimated to be present in ∼3 in 1000 live births, including Saudi Arabia. Pulse Oximetry Screening (POS) is a highly specific and moderately sensitive test for detecting CCHD with very low false-positive rates. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is among high-income countries with a population of more than 33 million and more than 600,000 annual live births. In 2015, the Universal Screening Program for CCHD using Pulse Oximetry was approved in Saudi Arabia. It is expected that any new national program will undergo a learning curve and face many challenges. We believe that developing countries may face different challenges during implementation of such national projects, but the success achieved by Saudi Arabia in implementing the program was mainly due to good preparation before launching the project and advancements in the use of the technology involved in this project. Since starting the universal CCHD screening in 2016, more than 900,000 babies have been screened in Saudi Arabia and many lives have been saved using this safe, non-invasive, inexpensive, and reasonably sensitive test. MDPI 2020-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7422967/ /pubmed/33073011 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijns6010013 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review AlAql, Fahad Khaleel, Huda Peter, Vetha Universal Screening for CCHD in Saudi Arabia: The Road to a ‘State of the Art’ Program |
title | Universal Screening for CCHD in Saudi Arabia: The Road to a ‘State of the Art’ Program |
title_full | Universal Screening for CCHD in Saudi Arabia: The Road to a ‘State of the Art’ Program |
title_fullStr | Universal Screening for CCHD in Saudi Arabia: The Road to a ‘State of the Art’ Program |
title_full_unstemmed | Universal Screening for CCHD in Saudi Arabia: The Road to a ‘State of the Art’ Program |
title_short | Universal Screening for CCHD in Saudi Arabia: The Road to a ‘State of the Art’ Program |
title_sort | universal screening for cchd in saudi arabia: the road to a ‘state of the art’ program |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7422967/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33073011 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijns6010013 |
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