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Blue baby syndrome (or simply, blue baby) is a layman's term used to describe newborns with cyanotic conditions, such as:
On November 29, 1944, the Johns Hopkins Hospital was the first to successfully perform an operation to relieve this syndrome. 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.
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