Daisy Hill Hospital medics have been praised for their pioneering use of a new-born baby heartbeat screening test which alerted them that a baby from Burren had a serious heart defect, which required urgent surgery in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin.
Daisy Hill is currently the only hospital in Northern Ireland to use the new born heart screening test known as Pulse Oximetry. The children’s heart charity, Heartbeat NI funded the life-saving screening equipment and Consultant paediatrician Dr Bassam Aljarad introduced the programme at Daisy Hill Acute Hospital in 2015.
Irwyn McKibbin, Chairman of Heartbeat NI stated in an article in The Examiner (28/05/2018) “I would like to congratulate the staff at Daisy Hill for not only undertaking what was initially a pilot study, but for persisting with it once the trial period expired. I am delighted for Katie and Alan that Dáire is doing so well and that Heartbeat NI played a small part in this good news story.”
Baby Dáire from Burren with her parents, Katie Dinsmore and Alan Lawson, returned to Daisy Hill Hospital to meet with Staff Midwife Rachel Tinnelly and Dr Sally Anne Devine.
Katie, along with charity Heartbeat NI has called for the test to be mandatory at all hospitals, as Katie is quoted in the Newry Democrat (29/05/2018): “It saved Dáire so it should definitely be done everywhere. Even if it saves one life”
Congratulations to all the staff at Daisy Hill Acute Hospital for this fantastic work, and wishing Baby Dáire and her parents Katie and Alan all the best for the future.
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