Researchers have found in a new study that integrating umbilical artery pH (UA-pH) with Apgar scores enhances estimation of ...

In medicine, inertia can be a strangely powerful force, but Virginia Apgar never succumbed to it. She brought incredible energy to her work in anesthesia, neonatology, and dysmorphology (the study of ...

正常的妊娠过程中，子宫处在无菌条件下，胎儿并不会发生感染。但在某些特殊情况中，一些致病菌会通过生殖道逆行或者血行性传播，引起羊水、胎盘、胎膜和胎儿的感染，我们称之为宫内感染。 许多医生对胎儿宫内感染的警惕往往不够，其实宫内感染是一类 ...

The Apgar score is a system used by the doctors to assess newborn baby's health at birth i.e. it is a measure of a baby's condition after birth. This test is used to check baby's heart rate, muscle ...

The vitality of preterm infants should be assessed with an Apgar score, a tool used to measure the health of newborns immediately after birth. That is the conclusion by researchers who in a large ...

If you are expecting a baby or recently delivered, you probably heard the word Apgar tossed around and wondered what it meant. Letters and numbers, a score—it can all sound very cryptic. But it's ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Virginia Apgar noticed something odd. Despite the US infant mortality rate decreasing overall, a high number of infants were still dying within 24 hours of birth. Part of ...

The test of health given to all infants just moments after they're born may also indicate trouble in school for a few of those infants once they become teenagers, a new study shows. Researchers looked ...

Thursday’s Google">https://www.google.com/doodles/dr-virginia-apgars-109th-birthday">Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of Dr. Virginia Apgar, whose Apgar Score ...