The Apgar score has long served as a rapid and effective tool for assessing the immediate physiological state of a newborn. By evaluating five key criteria—heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, ...
An objective assessment for post-surgical patients is critical to decreasing mortality and improving patient outcomes, according to an editorial published in Anesthesiology by Atul A. Gawande, MD, MPH ...
A 5-minute Apgar score < 7 was significantly associated with increased risks for in-hospital mortality, severe intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), retinopathy of ...
Funding: SJS is funded by a Wellcome Trust Clinical Career Development Fellowship 209560/Z/17/Z (https://wellcome.org). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision ...
OBJECTIVE To investigate associations between Apgar score at five and 10 minutes across the entire range of score values (from 0 to 10) and risks of childhood cerebral palsy or epilepsy, and to ...
You might not be familiar with Virginia Apgar, but her impact likely touched your life the moment you were born. Best known for creating a simple test, the longtime Tenafly resident revolutionized the ...
Virginia Apgar kept score for America's babies and coveted scores on the violin as well. She was a doctor, musician, instrument maker — and an overall pioneering female physician who overcame the ...
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