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 ...

The Apgar score was originally developed to standardise the assessment of term-born infants' clinical condition at 1 min of life. However, accumulating research shows that the judgement at 5 ...

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 ...

Minutes after an infant is born, doctors must assess five key health metrics: heart rate, respiration, muscle tone, reflex response, and color. The assessment, called the Apgar Score, helps determine ...

Apgar scores and cord blood gases (BG) and pH were compared between a group of babies with nuchal cords and a group without nuchal cords and uncomplicated deliveries. We collected umbilical arterial ...

A set of comprehensive asthma management tools helps decrease asthma-related visits to the emergency department, urgent care or hospital and improves patients' asthma control. The Asthma APGAR tools, ...