Virginia Apgar
American obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909-1974)
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- 1909
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- 1974
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- Down's syndrome (mongolism)
- Errors in anesthesia
- Notes on anesthesia
- Notes on anesthesia prepared for the medical students, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
- Is my baby all right?
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Virginia Apgar (June 7, 1909 – August 7, 1974) was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. In 1952, she developed the 10-point Apgar score to assist physicians and nurses in assessing the status of newborns. Given at one minute and five minutes after birth, the Apgar test measures a child's breathing, skin color, reflexes, motion, and heart rate. A friend said, "She probably did more than any other physician to bring the problem of birth defects out of back rooms." She was a leader in the fields of anesthesiology and teratology, and introduced obstetrical considerations to the established field of neonatology.
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