Cooper Whitehurst wouldn’t have been able to celebrate his 5th birthday last year if he hadn’t had a pulse
oximetry test when he was born. His
mother Gretchen Whitehurst says that simple test saved her son’s life.
Cooper was born with a congenital heart defect, which the
pulse-ox test caught. Legislation signed into law this week by governor Scott
Walker ensures that all babies born in Wisconsin have the test…a measure
Whitehurst says she supports with all her heart and all her son Cooper’s heart. Right now only about a quarter of Wisconsin hospitals give
the pulse-ox test to newborns. Whitehurst says there is no doubt this simple, non-invasive
test saved her son’s life. The test measures oxygen saturation in a newborn’s blood.
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