Journal article
The Apgar Score
Pediatrics (Evanston), Vol.117(4), pp.1444-1447
04/01/2006
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0325
PMID: 16585348
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 ABSTRACT]
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Apgar Score
- Creators
- Ann StarkDavid AdamkinDaniel BattonEdward BellCommittee on Fetus and Newborn, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Pediatrics (Evanston), Vol.117(4), pp.1444-1447
- Publisher
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- DOI
- 10.1542/peds.2006-0325
- PMID
- 16585348
- ISSN
- 0031-4005
- eISSN
- 1098-4275
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2006
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Neonatology
- Record Identifier
- 9984353833902771
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