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 ...

The Apgar score is a way of measuring the health of a baby right after birth and is still used in many hospitals in the US today. She gave thousands of babies scores during the 1950s as the rate ...

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 ...

These are scored on the Apgar scale – named after Dr Virginia Apgar, who devised it, ­to determine whether your baby needs immediate special attention. Your baby is given a score of 0, 1 or 2 ...

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.

Inventor of newborn's 'Apgar score' has birthday celebrated with Google doodle The renowned American anesthesiologist would have celebrated her 109th birthday today ...