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The timing of neonatal death in preterm and term infants with five-minute Apgar scores of 0 to 3 is shown in Figure 3. The poor condition at birth that was reflected in very low five-minute scores ...
The Apgar score is a scoring system doctors and nurses use to assess newborns after they’re born. A score of 7 to 10 five minutes after birth is reassuring, 4 to 7 is moderately abnormal ...
But the delivery room can be confusing with medical personnel and lots of monitors. A number of screenings for newborns are given right away, including the APGAR Score, which is one of the most common ...
Many parents know Apgar as an acronym for what it measures: Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity and Respiration. But the score was first named for Virginia Apgar, the gutsy anesthesiologist who ...
In medicine, inertia can be a strangely powerful force, but Virginia Apgar never succumbed to it. She brought incredible energy to her work in anesthesia, neonatology, and dysmorphology (the study ...
The study, published Tuesday in PLOS Medicine, found that more Black infants were assigned low Apgar scores than white infants and that the scores were better at predicting death in the first year ...
Low Apgar scores are associated with infant mortality across racial groups, but there is variance across groups, according to a study published online July 12 in PLOS Medicine. The researchers ...