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 ...

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 ...

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

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.