§ 25-17-06 — Pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart defects - Exception

North Dakota § 25-17-06

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 25: Mental and Physical Illness or Disability
• Ch. 25-17: Testing and Treatment of Newborns

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Before discharge of a newborn child born in a hospital with a birthing center, the newborn
child must receive a pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart defects. The screening
requirement of this section does not apply if the parents or guardians of a newborn child object
to the screening. The department shall provide medical staff and facilities that provide birthing
services with notice regarding this screening requirement. For purposes of this chapter, pulse
oximetry screening is not a test under section 25-17-05 and a congenital heart defect detected

by screening under this section is not a metabolic disease or genetic disease as those terms are
used under this chapter.