Home > Injuries > Blue Baby Syndrome

Blue Baby Syndrome

Name: Phone: Email: State: Your Question: We value your privacy and security. Click here for WrongfulDeathNetwork.info's privacy and security policy.

Blue baby syndrome (or simply, blue baby) is a layman's term used to describe newborns with cyanotic conditions, such as:

Cyanotic heart defects
Tetralogy of Fallot
Dextro-Transposition of the great arteries
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
Methemoglobinemia
Respiratory distress syndrome
On November 29, 1944, the Johns Hopkins Hospital was the first to successfully perform an operation to relieve this syndrome. Drs. Alfred Blalock, Helen B. Taussig, and Vivien Thomas performed an anastomosis, or joining, of the subclavian artery to the pulmonary artery in a cyanotic child, allowing the blood another chance to become oxygenated. The procedure is now known as a Blalock-Taussig shunt.

Blue Baby Syndrome is often caused by excessive amounts of nitrates in an infant's body.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia