The Apgar Score Article Swipe

PDF

Related Concepts

Medicine Apgar score Asphyxia Resuscitation Breathing Psychological intervention Neonatal resuscitation Obstetrics Birth weight Emergency medicine Anesthesia Pregnancy Psychiatry Biology Genetics

Kristi L. Watterberg , Susan W. Aucott , W.E. Benitz , James J. Cummings , Eric C. Eichenwald , Jay P. Goldsmith , Brenda B. Poindexter , Karen M. Puopolo , Dan L. Stewart , Kasper S. Wang , Jeffrey L. Ecker , Joseph R. Wax , Ann Elizabeth Bryant Borders , Yasser Y. El‐Sayed , R. Phillips Heine , Denise J. Jamieson , Maria Anne Mascola , Howard Minkoff , Alison M. Stuebe , James Sumners , Methodius G. Tuuli , Kurt R. Wharton ·

YOU? · · 2015 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2015-2651 · OA: W4248014875

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.