Newborn Screening Act of 2004 - Correct Answer RA 9288 is known as
19 sections, 5 articles - Correct Answer RA 9288 consists of __ sections and __ articles
Heel prick - Correct Answer Using a __________________, a few drops of blood are taken from
the baby's heel
6 cards - Correct Answer How many cards to be blotted is required for each disease?
4 hours - Correct Answer The blood is dried for how many hours?
Newborn Screening Center - Correct Answer The dried blood is sent to
24 hours/1 day - Correct Answer Positive result of neonatal screening should be released
immediately within __
7 working days - Correct Answer Negative result of neonatal screening should be released
_________ after receipt in the NBS Lab
lifetime management - Correct Answer All of the congenital metabolic disorders require
_______
Luzon (4)
- Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center
- Angeles University Foundation Medical Center
- Daniel Mercado Medical Center
, - UP Manila (NSC-NIH)
Visayas (2)
- West Visayas State University Medical Center (NSC-Visayas)
- Eversley Childs Sanitarium and General Hospital
Mindanao (1)
- Southern Philippines Medical Cetner - Correct Answer How many NSC's in the Philippines for
each archipelago in the Philippines? And their names?
True - Correct Answer (True/False)
NBS system ensures that every baby in the Philippines is offered NBS
Section 3: Objectives - Correct Answer Section that discusses the accessibility to newborn
screening, the integration of a sustainale newborn screening system, and ensuring that the
parents recognize their responsibility.
Follow up - Correct Answer Monitoring of a newborn
Health institutions - Correct Answer mean hospitals, health infirmaries, health centers, lying-in
centers or puericulture centers with obstetrical and pediatric services, whether public or
private.
healthcare practitioner - Correct Answer means physicians, nurses, midwives, nursing aides
and traditional birth attendants.
heritable condition - Correct Answer means any condition that can result in mental
retardation, physical deformity or death
Newborn - Correct Answer means a child from the time of complete delivery to 30 days old.