Correspondence to Dr Osuke Iwata, Center for Human Development and Family Science, Department of Neonatology and Pediatrics, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences and Medical ...

Children with both a low 5-minute Apgar score and low umbilical cord blood pH at birth had a greater risk of developing ADHD than reference newborns. No increased ADHD risk was observed when Apgar ...

In his masterful book Better, surgeon Atul Gawande writes that in the 1950s, newborn babies in the United States faced great danger: "One in thirty still died at birth—odds that were scarcely better ...

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 ...

Objective Asystole at birth and extending through 10 min is rare, with current international recommendations stating it may be appropriate to consider discontinuation of resuscitation in this clinical ...

Low Apgar scores have been associated with an increased risk of brain injury and neurodevelopmental disorders in newborns with congenital heart defects (CHDs). However, the relation between CHD ...

Credit: Getty Images Virginia Apgar, an American physician who revolutionized neonatal medicine, is most widely known for her development of the Apgar score. Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) was an American ...

Do you know your baby's APGAR score? Parents aren't usually particular about their newborn's APGAR score. Unlike school grades that they would proudly share on social media, many think that the APGAR ...

The Apgar score is a convenient and quick method doctors use to report a newborn’s health just after birth. The test assesses the child’s skin color, pulse rate, reflex irritability grimace, activity, ...

Objectives In preterm infants the predictive and discriminative validity of the Apgar score regarding neonatal mortality and cause-specific neonatal death remains uncertain. 1–3 Methods ...