The Apgar score. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The Apgar score provides a convenient shorthand for reporting the status of the newborn infant and the response to resuscitation. The Apgar score has been used inappropriately to predict specific neurologic outcome in the term infant. There are no consistent data on the significance of the Apgar score in preterm infants. The Apgar score has limitations, and it is inappropriate to use it alone to establish the diagnosis of asphyxia. An Apgar score assigned during resuscitation is not equivalent to a score assigned to a spontaneously breathing infant. An expanded Apgar score reporting form will account for concurrent resuscitative interventions and provide information to improve systems of perinatal and neonatal care.

publication date

  • April 1, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Apgar Score

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33646357903

PubMed ID

  • 16585348

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 117

issue

  • 4