The Apgar score is a scoring system doctors and nurses use to assess newborns one minute and five minutes after they are born. It was created in 1952.

The Birth of the Apgar Score. In the 1950s, Dr. Virginia Apgar began to notice a gap in neonatal care. At that time, there was no standardized method for assessing a newborn’s condition ...

The value of the Apgar score has become controversial because of attempts to use it as a predictor of the neurologic development of the infant, a use for which it was never intended. 4 For example ...

Apgar developed her scoring system in the early 1950s to help identify newborns who might need immediate medical attention after birth. The Apgar Score, performed one minute and five minutes after ...

Previous studies relied on International Classification of Diseases codes to assess the incidence rate and risk factors for ...

An Apgar score, ranging from zero to 10, is assigned to infants one, five, and sometimes 10 minutes after birth in nearly every delivery room, based on heart rate, muscle tone, ...

Babies born at 22-24 weeks with an Apgar score at 5 minutes of 0 to 1 had nearly five times the relative risk of neonatal death compared with those who had a score of 9 or 10 (ARR 4.7, 95% CI 2.7 ...

Dr. Virginia Apgar created the Apgar score to diagnose babies immediately out of the womb, helping save the lives of millions of babies. She was honored with a U.S. Postal Service stamp in 1994 ...

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 ...

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 ...