A method, developed by Dr. Virginia Apgar, to evaluate a newborn's adjustment to extrauterine life. Five items - heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability, and color - are evaluated 60 seconds after birth and again five minutes later on a scale from 0-2, 0 being the lowest, 2 being normal. The five numbers are added for the Apgar score. A score of 0-3 represents severe distress, 4-7 indicates moderate distress, and a score of 7-10 predicts an absence of difficulty in adjusting to extrauterine life.

Annotation

check the tags HUMANS & INFANT, NEWBORN

vyber tagy LIDÉ a NOVOROZENEC

DUI

D001034 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0001568

Previous indexing

Infant, Newborn (1966-1970); Physical Examination (1966-1970)

History note

73(71)

Public note

73