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, and 0 ...

To address this issue, Apgar developed a simple, systematic method for evaluating a newborn’s health within the first few minutes of life. In 1952, she introduced the Apgar score, a quick and ...

A number of screenings for newborns are given right away, including the APGAR Score, which is one of the most common newborn assessments. The APGAR is given one minute after birth and then again at ...

It worked. Over 17,000 births later, Apgar became known for the “Apgar score” (and doctors today still remember the score based on her name: appearance, pulse, grimace, activity and respiration.) ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Virginia Apgar noticed something odd. Despite the US infant mortality rate decreasing overall, a high number of infants were still dying within 24 hours of birth.

Shortly after they’re born, infants are assigned an Apgar score, a measure of how well they’re adapting to life outside the womb. It’s the first time a child is graded: on a scale from 0 to ...

A low Apgar score (< 7) was strongly associated with a higher risk for in-hospital mortality than a high Apgar score (≥ 7; 35.7% vs 6.9%; adjusted relative risk [RR], 2.24; 95% CI, 1.95-2.58 ...

A score of three or below is seriously low, four to six is fairly low, and seven to 10 is fairly normal. In her paper, Apgar made two recommendations to improve the reliability of the score.

Apgar even linked the scores to infant mortality; the lowest-scoring babies had a mortality rate of 14%, compared to 0.13% for the highest-scoring babies.