The day Brandon Diallo was born, no one had an inkling there was anything wrong with him. But in the middle of his second night at Virtua Memorial in Mount Holly, a nurse fastened a small oxygen sensor to his hand and foot.New Jersey officials say Brandon is at least the second baby whose critical heart defect was detected by the test,
an infant-size version of the pulse oximetry screening commonly done on adult patients. The other “save” took place in September, at Newton Medical Center in Sussex County. http://bit.ly/uDzbwL
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