Virginia Apgar and colleagues wrote "Evaluation of the Newborn Infant?Second Report" in 1958. This article explained that Apgar's system for evaluating infants' condition after birth accurately predicted the health of infants. Apgar had developed the scoring system in 1953 to provide a simple method for determining if an infant needed medical attention after birth. The research team, working at...

Sixty four asphyxiated term babies (Apgar score of 6 or less at 5 minutes) and 90 non-asphyxiated term babies (controls) were studied. Of these, 40 cases and 48 controls could be followed up. Mortality and neurodevelopmental outcome were studied in both the cases and controls. Mortality and poor neurodevelopmental outcome correlated inversely with the Apgar scores at 5 and 10 minutes. The outco...

Virginia Apgar and colleagues wrote "Evaluation of the Newborn Infant?Second Report" in 1958. This article explained that Apgar's system for evaluating infants' condition after birth accurately predicted the health of infants. Apgar had developed the scoring system in 1953 to provide a simple method for determining if an infant needed medical attention after birth. The research team, working at...

In 1952 Virginia Apgar, a physician at the Sloane Women?s Hospital in New York City, New York, created the Apgar score as a method of evaluating newborn infants? health to determine if they required medical intervention. The score included five separate categories, including heart rate, breathing rate, reaction to stimuli, muscle activity, and color. An infant received a score from zero to two ...

The majority ofinfants being delivered in the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong are of British, Chinese or Nepalese origin. This paper compares perinatal data from these three groups of mothers and their babies, and in particular looks at the variations in perinatal mortality rates over the 10 year period 1976-1985. Mortality among the • British babies has declined in a way similar to many a...

A painful labor induces adverse maternal effects and increases fetal stress, yet evidence of lack of adverse effect of epidural anesthesia to the newborn Apgar score has been inconsistent. The aim of this study was to investigate maternal, newborn and anesthetic factors associated with a low Apgar score, in particular the effect of modality and timing of epidural analgesia, since this may allow...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between maternal periodontal disease and the health status of newborns using Apgar scores. METHODS One hundred pregnant women with periodontal disease were included in the case series and 100 pregnant women without periodontal disease were placed in the control group, respectively. The periodontal parameters of bleeding on probing...

A recent study by Grunebaum et al examined the relationship between place of birth and adverse neonatal outcomes (Apgar of 0 at 5 minutes, and neonatal seizures or serious neurologic dysfunction—hereafter referred to as neonatal seizures) as reported in birth certificate data from 2007 to 2010 for term newborns (n = 13,891,274) (1). Outcomes were analyzed by four practitioner types: hospital ph...

introduction: apgar score evaluation is a common method to evaluate physiological changes of newborns and can help to predict the neonatal life chance. this study was conducted to determine the apgar score of newborns with two methods of vaginal delivery and spinal anesthesia and its relationship with the associated factors in gorgan health care facility. materials and methods: a cross-sectiona...

BACKGROUND: Surgical teams have not had a routine, reliable measure of patient condition at the end of an operation. We aimed to develop an Apgar score for the field of surgery, an outcomes score that teams could calculate at the end of any general or vascular surgical procedure to accurately grade a patient’s condition and chances of major complications or death. STUDY DESIGN: We derived our s...