07/08/1974 American obstetrician Virginia Apgar dies
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Virginia Apgar
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Dr. Virginia Apgar teaches the Apgar Score [1964]
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APGAR Score - MEDZCOOL
She is known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a child immediately after birth. It is determined by evaluating the baby on five simple criteria on a scale from zero to two, then summing up the five values thus obtained. Virginia Apgar was also a leading authority in the fields of anaesthesiology and teratology.