Pulse Oximetry Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease in Planned Out-of-Hospital Births

This study provides information on the use of POS for CCHD in out-of-hospital births and shows that POS can be successfully implemented outside the hospital setting. Although the failure rate in this small sample was higher than reported in studies of hospital births, those babies failing the screening had significant disease processes that were identified more rapidly because of the screening.