"Apgar Score" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
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D001034
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.050
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| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Apgar Score" by people in Profiles.
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Grünebaum A, McCullough LB, Sapra KJ, Brent RL, Levene MI, Arabin B, Chervenak FA. Apgar score of 0 at 5 minutes and neonatal seizures or serious neurologic dysfunction in relation to birth setting. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Oct; 209(4):323.e1-6.
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Al-Kouatly HB, Schuster SS, Skupski DW. Double nuchal umbilical cord and breech presentation. The value of close follow-up. Gynecol Obstet Invest. 2003; 56(3):121-3.
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Abbasi S, Gerdes JS, Sehdev HM, Samimi SS, Ludmir J. Neonatal outcome after exposure to indomethacin in utero: a retrospective case cohort study. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2003 Sep; 189(3):782-5.