Save Babies Through Screening Foundation is proud to announce the release of an important new video entitled: Newborn Bloodspots Save Lives…One Spot at a Time. The film provides information and education on newborn screening using bloodspots and helps shed more light on the important issues around saving and using these bloodspots after screening is completed.
When a bloodspot sample is taken from an infant for newborn screening, a few drops of blood from the heel are collected into circles on a special filter paper. These samples are dried and then sent to the laboratory for screening.
The blood-filled circles are known as newborn bloodspots, and they are essential not only for the life-saving screening, but also to assure the quality of the current screening and for development of new screening tests. The video provides a clear discussion of these and other critical issues about newborn screening.
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