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Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Physical Examination > Apgar Score

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Apgar Score  

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  • check the tags HUMANS & INFANT, NEWBORN

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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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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D001034

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