"Apgar Score" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A method, developed by Dr. Virginia Apgar, to evaluate a newborn's adjustment to extrauterine life. Five items - heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability, and color - are evaluated 60 seconds after birth and again five minutes later on a scale from 0-2, 0 being the lowest, 2 being normal. The five numbers are added for the Apgar score. A score of 0-3 represents severe distress, 4-7 indicates moderate distress, and a score of 7-10 predicts an absence of difficulty in adjusting to extrauterine life.
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D001034
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.050
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Apgar Score" by people in Profiles.
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Whelan AR, Esposito M, Lord MG. The Impact of Maternal Obesity on Neonatal Outcomes of Pregnancies Complicated by Fetal Growth Restriction. Am J Perinatol. 2024 05; 41(S 01):e2184-e2187.
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Orr L, Reisinger-Kindle K, Roy A, Levine L, Connolly K, Visintainer P, Schoen CN. Combination of Foley and prostaglandins versus Foley and oxytocin for cervical ripening: a network meta-analysis. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 11; 223(5):743.e1-743.e17.
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Bowser LE, Young M, Wenger OK, Ammous Z, Brigatti KW, Carson VJ, Moser T, Deline J, Aoki K, Morlet T, Scott EM, Puffenberger EG, Robinson DL, Hendrickson C, Salvin J, Gottlieb S, Heaps AD, Tiemeyer M, Strauss KA. Recessive GM3 synthase deficiency: Natural history, biochemistry, and therapeutic frontier. Mol Genet Metab. 2019 04; 126(4):475-488.
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Gupta S, Natarajan G, Gupta D, Karnati S, Dwaihy M, Wang B, Chawla S. Variability in Apgar Score Assignment among Clinicians: Role of a Simple Clarification. Am J Perinatol. 2017 01; 34(1):8-13.
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Baghirzada L, Krings T, Carvalho JC. Regional anesthesia in Marfan syndrome, not all dural ectasias are the same: a report of two cases. Can J Anaesth. 2012 Nov; 59(11):1052-7.
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Parker RK, Connelly NR, Lucas T, Serban S, Pristas R, Berman E, Gibson C. Epidural clonidine added to a bupivacaine infusion increases analgesic duration in labor without adverse maternal or fetal effects. J Anesth. 2007; 21(2):142-7.
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Parker RK, Connelly NR, Lucas T, Faheem U, Rizvi AS, El-Mansouri M, Thakkar N, Kamasumadram R, Dixon K, Dunn SM, Gibson C. The addition of hydromorphone to epidural fentanyl does not affect analgesia in early labour. Can J Anaesth. 2002 Jun-Jul; 49(6):600-4.
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Elimian A, Verma U, Canterino J, Shah J, Visintainer P, Tejani N. Effectiveness of antenatal steroids in obstetric subgroups. Obstet Gynecol. 1999 Feb; 93(2):174-9.
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Edwards RD, Hansel NK, Pruessner HT, Barton B. Intrathecal morphine as analgesia for labor pain. J Am Board Fam Pract. 1988 Oct-Dec; 1(4):245-50.