Virginia Apgar." In a 1964 video, Dr. Apgar assists a nurse through checking a newborn's reflexes.

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 ...

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 ...

Restricting the analysis to white married women with age ... The association between teenage pregnancy and low Apgar score and neonatal death was not significant in the youngest mothers aged ...

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