A vital tool used in these assessments is the Apgar score, a simple yet revolutionary method that has saved countless newborn lives since its inception. But how did the Apgar score come about ...

The Apgar score is a quick assessment tool used to evaluate the health of newborns immediately after birth. It measures five criteria: heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex response ...

Honed during a collaborative study involving 17,221 babies, it became the "Apgar score" and started to provide doctors with ...

The rates of very pre-term delivery, pre-term delivery, very LBW, LBW, SGA, very low Apgar score, low Apgar score and neonatal mortality were higher in teenage pregnancies. They were consistently ...

It's said that "every baby born in a modern hospital in the world is looked at first through the eyes of Dr. Virginia Apgar." In a 1964 video, Dr. Apgar assists a nurse through checking a newborn ...

Plus there are two additional calculators that help the medical professionals to check the APGAR score and drug dosages for children.