Journal article
The Apgar Score
Pediatrics (Evanston), Vol.136(4), pp.819-822
10/01/2015
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2015-2651
PMID: 26416932
Abstract
The Apgar score provides an accepted and convenient method for reporting the status of the newborn infant immediately after birth and the response to resuscitation if needed. The Apgar score alone cannot be considered as evidence of, or a consequence of, asphyxia; does not predict individual neonatal mortality or neurologic outcome; and should not be used for that purpose. An Apgar score assigned during resuscitation is not equivalent to a score assigned to a spontaneously breathing infant. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists encourage use of an expanded Apgar score reporting form that accounts for concurrent resuscitative interventions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Apgar Score
- Creators
- American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Fetus and NewbornAmerican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee on Obstetric PracticeKristi L. WatterbergSusan AucottWilliam E. BenitzJames J. CummingsEric C. EichenwaldJay GoldsmithBrenda B. PoindexterKaren PuopoloDan L. StewartKasper S. WangJeffrey L. EckerJoseph R. WaxAnn Elizabeth Bryant BordersYasser Yehia El-SayedR. Phillips HeineDenise J. JamiesonMaria Anne MascolaHoward L. MinkoffAlison M. StuebeJames E. SumnersMethodius G. TuuliKurt R. Wharton
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Pediatrics (Evanston), Vol.136(4), pp.819-822
- DOI
- 10.1542/peds.2015-2651
- PMID
- 26416932
- NLM abbreviation
- Pediatrics
- ISSN
- 0031-4005
- eISSN
- 1098-4275
- Publisher
- Amer Acad Pediatrics
- Number of pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2015
- Academic Unit
- Obstetrics and Gynecology; VPMA - Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984446446402771
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