A friend said, "She probably did more than any other physician to bring the problem of birth defects out of back rooms." She was a leader in the fields of anesthesiology and teratology, and introduced obstetrical considerations to the established field of neonatology. Given at one minute and five minutes after birth, the Apgar test measures a child's breathing, skin color, reflexes, motion, and heart rate. In 1952, she developed the 10-point Apgar score to assist physicians and nurses in assessing the status of newborns. Virginia Apgar (June 7, 1909 – August 7, 1974) was an American physician of Armenian ethnic background, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar Score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. Is My Baby All Right? A Guide to Birth Defects, with Joan Beck
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |