What is Apgar Score?

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction
0:59 How does it work?
1:34 Appearance
1:59 Pulse
2:22 Grimace
2:47 Activity
3:11 Respiration
3:33 What the scores mean


The Apgar score is a method to quickly summarize the health of newborn children against infant mortality.Virginia Apgar, an anesthesiologist at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, developed the score in 1952 to quantify the effects of obstetric anesthesia on babies.

The Apgar score is determined by evaluating the newborn baby on five simple criteria on a scale from zero to two, then summing up the five values thus obtained. The resulting Apgar score ranges from zero to 10. The five criteria are summarized using words chosen to form a backronym (Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration).