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Apgar score
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The Apgar score was devised in 1952 by Dr. Virginia Apgar as a simple and repeatable method to quickly and summarily assess the health of newborn children immediately after childbirth. Virginia Apgar was a pediatrician and anesthesiologist who developed the score to ascertain the effects of anaesthetic agents on neonates.
The Apgar score is determined by evaluating the newborn baby on five simple criteria on a scale from zero to two and summing up the five values thus obtained. The resulting Apgar score ranges from zero to 10. The five criteria (Activity, Pulse, Grimace, Appearance, Respiration) are used as a mnemonic learning aid.
Ap·gar [ap-gahr]
–noun Virginia, 1909–74, U.S. physician: developed test to evaluate health of newborns