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Professor Virginia Apgar (1909-1974)

• American paediatric anaesthesiologist

• Founder of neonatology field

• Also founder of Apgar score (1952)

← “designed first standardized method for evaluating newborns transition to life outside the womb”

← Further related Apgar score to labour, delivery and anaesthetics

← Apgar score at 5 min can predict neonatal survival and neurological development

• In 1949: she was the 1st woman at Columbia University college of Physicians and Surgeons to be named FULL PROFESSOR

The Primary Purpose of the Apgar score

• Part of early assessment of newborn’s clinical condition at 1min and 5min after birth normally,

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