Congenital Heart Disease Screening Program
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect. Approximately 8 per every 1,000 babies are born with a form of CHD.
Children’s National Medical Center has created the Congenital Heart Disease Screening Program to help to detect serious CHD while newborns are in the nursery. The program uses pulse oximetry, a non-invasive test, to quickly and painlessly test the babies for serious CHD while they are in the newborn nursery.
If you are an expectant mom or a clinician interested in the CHDSP, please contact Elizabeth A. Bradshaw, MSN, RN, CPN at 202-476-5270 or email her at ebradsha@cnmc.org.
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