Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM › Title 181 - SPECIAL HEALTH PROGRAMS › Chapter 10 - SCREENING OF NEWBORNS FOR CRITICAL CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE › Section 181-10-002 - DEFINITIONS

Current through June 17, 2024
Definitions set out Neb. Rev. Stats. §§
									71-553
	 through
	 71-557
	 and the following apply to this chapter.
002.01
CRITICAL CONGENITAL HEART
  DISEASE
(CCHD). One of seven targeted lesions for which newborn
  screening by pulse oximetry is intended to detect. The seven lesions are
  hypoplastic left heart syndrome, pulmonary atresia, tetralogy of Fallot, total
  anomalous pulmonary venous return, transposition of the great arteries,
  tricuspid atresia, and truncus arteriosus.
002.02
ECHOCARDIOGRAM.
A diagnostic test that uses ultrasound
  waves to create an image of the heart muscle. Echocardiograms can show the
  size, shape, and movement of the heart's valves and chambers as well as the
  flow of blood through the heart.
002.03
HOSPITAL.
Any
  facility defined under Neb. Rev. Stat. §
									71-419.
002.04
HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART
  SYNDROME.
A structural birth defect that involves a number of
  underdeveloped or too small of structures on the left side of the heart
  including the left ventricle, mitral valve, aortic valve, ascending portion of
  the aorta. Often babies with this syndrome will also have an atrial septal
  defect, or hole between the left and right atria.
002.05
INCONCLUSIVE SCREEN
  RESULT.
A result of the screening algorithm which is neither
  positive (failed) or negative (passed) but requires further screening to make a
  determination of positive or negative.
002.06
NEGATIVE SCREEN
  RESULT.
An oxygen saturation screening test result that is above
  the cut-off, and the difference in measurement of the oxygen saturation between
  the right hand and foot is below a specified percent. A passed screen is a
  negative screen result for critical congenital heart disease.
002.07
NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE
  UNIT (NICU).
A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide
  intensive care to premature, low birthweight and seriously ill
  newborns.
002.08
PHYSICIAN.
A person licensed to practice medicine and
  surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery.
002.09
POSITIVE SCREEN
  RESULT.
An oxygen saturation screening test result that is below
  the cut off, or the difference in measurement of the oxygen saturation between
  the right hand and foot exceeds a specified percent. A failed screen is a
  positive screen result for possible critical congenital heart disease.
002.010
PRENATAL CARE
  PROVIDER.
A licensed health care professional providing care to
  pregnant women before delivery of the newborn.
002.011
PULMONARY
  ATRESIA.
A structural birth defect in which the pulmonary valve
  between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery is abnormal and does not open.
  This may also result in a small or missing right ventricle.
002.012
PULSE
  OXIMETRY.
A non-invasive method of measuring the percent oxygen
  saturation of hemoglobin in the arterial blood.
002.013
TETRALOGY OF
  FALLOT.
Structural birth defects of the heart affecting four
  parts. Ventricular septal defect is a hole in the wall between the two lower
  chambers of the heart. Pulmonary stenosis is a narrowing of the pulmonary valve
  and main pulmonary artery. The aortic valve is enlarged and open to both
  ventricles instead of just the left ventricle. Right ventricular hypertrophy is
  a thickening of the lower right chamber muscle wall.
002.014
TOTAL ANOMALOUS PULMONARY
  VENOUS RETURN.
A condition present at birth in which the oxygen
  rich blood returns from the lungs to the right atrium or a vein flowing to the
  right atrium instead of the left side of the heart.
002.015
TRANSPOSITION OF THE
  GREAT OF ARTERIES.
A birth defect in which the two main arteries
  going out of the heart, the pulmonary artery and the aorta, are switched in
  position.
002.016
TRICUSPID ATRESIA.
A structural birth defect in which
  the tricuspid heart valve is either missing or abnormally developed.
002.017
TRUNCUS
  ARTERIOSIS.
A structural birth defect in which only one vessel
  comes out of the right and left ventricles instead of the two normal vessels
  (pulmonary artery and aorta). There is usually also a ventricular septal defect
  or large hole between the two ventricles.