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    The Apgar score is a quick way for health professionals to evaluate the health of all newborns at 1 and 5 minutes after birth and in response to resuscitation...
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    anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after...
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  • estate Virginia Apgar (1909–1974), American physician, developer of the Apgar score William C. Apgar, American economist Apgar score, a method to quickly...
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  • of obstetric topics Fetal fibronectin (fFN) Apgar score Bishop, Edward H. (August 1964). "Pelvic Scoring for Elective Induction". Obstetrics & Gynecology...
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    future complications, an Apgar score cannot do it alone. Beyond assessing the five components that make up the Apgar score, it's essential to understand...
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    normal, a score of 4 to 6 at 5 minutes is intermediate, and a score of 0-3 is considered low. It is important to understand that an Apgar score is not a...
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    smaller birth weight. In 1952, the anesthesiologist Dr. Virginia Apgar developed the Apgar score, used for standardized assessment of infants immediately upon...
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  • indicated that babies born at home are roughly 10 times as likely to have an Apgar score of 0 after 5 minutes and almost four times as likely to have neonatal...
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    mother's chest. The infant's condition is evaluated using the Apgar scale. The Apgar score is determined by evaluating the newborn baby on five criteria...
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  • than 7.20 on umbilical cord arterial blood sample, persistence of an Apgar score of 3 at the 5th minute, clinical neurologic sequelae in the immediate...
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    visitor. At birth, the baby receives an Apgar score at, at the least, one minute and five minutes of age. This is a score out of 10 that assesses the baby on...
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    birth include birth weight, head circumference, and body length. An Apgar score is given at the time of birth to report the status of the newborn infant...
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  • progress, and he saw in Apgar the 'energy and ability' to make a significant contribution. Apgar later devised the Apgar Score also at Columbia-Presbyterian...
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    a caesarean or operative vaginal delivery, and result in an improved Apgar score for the infant. Different measures for pain control have varying degrees...
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    appear to increase the rate of infections for the mother or the baby, and Apgar scores for the newborn infant were similar to those of conventional births....
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  • neonatal intensive care units (NICU), intrauterine growth restrictions, low Apgar score, chromosomal abnormalities and infants smaller for gestational age. The...
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    mnemonic is the Apgar score, used to assess the health of newborn babies. The rating system was devised by and named after Virginia Apgar. Ten years after...
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  • the benefit of its Property Owners." Virginia Apgar (1909–1974), pioneer of neonatology and the Apgar score Bobbi Kristina Brown (1993–2015), singer and...
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  • Ballard Score is age = (2 * score + 120) / 5 Apgar score Ballard JL, Novak KK, Driver M (November 1979). "A simplified score for assessment of fetal maturation...
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    late decelerations of FHR were associated with cord blood acidemia, low Apgar scores, need for intubation and resuscitation, NICU admission and neonatal hypoglycemia...
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    constant, the Diesel engine, meitnerium, Alzheimer's disease, and the Apgar score. For a different view of the process see Stigler's law of eponymy. In...
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    distinguishes between mild and severe polyhydramnios and showed that Apgar score of less than 7, perinatal death and structural malformations only occurred...
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