Preterm infants with lower Apgar scores had an increased risk of neonatal death, according to a population study in Sweden. Among babies born at 36 weeks or earlier, higher risk of mortality was seen ...
An objective assessment for post-surgical patients is critical to decreasing mortality and improving patient outcomes, according to an editorial published in Anesthesiology by Atul A. Gawande, MD, MPH ...
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Your Baby’s First Test: What the Apgar Score Means
The first test most babies are given — and which most pass with good scores — is the Apgar test. It was developed in 1952 by Dr. Virginia Apgar, who wanted a quick, simple way to check how newborns ...
The Apgar test grades infants in five areas, including skin tone. Babies of color score lower, and may be subjected to unnecessary treatment. By Roni Caryn Rabin Shortly after they’re born, infants ...
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Virginia Apgar, the woman whose name saves newborns
How important is Dr. Virginia Apgar to the modern practice of obstetrics? Here is the way the National Library of Medicine's website puts it: "[E]very baby born in a modern hospital anywhere in the ...
In medicine, inertia can be a strangely powerful force, but Virginia Apgar never succumbed to it. She brought incredible energy to her work in anesthesia, neonatology, and dysmorphology (the study of ...
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