Comments on: Understanding APGAR Scores

By: purplern

purplern — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:57:35 +0000

Just a heads up, your “acronym” is actually a “backronym”

It's named after Virginia Apgar, who invented the score. It was just fortuitous that the assessments fit in nicely with her name

By: vidyut

vidyut — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:29:05 +0000

Jill

You mean "they said babies never get 10s at that hospital"?!? As in, kids in their hospital are never born with active motion, over 100BPM, full reflexes to suctioning, in pink health (or red from the screaming) and crying? That's mighty strange! I'd say if that is the healthy response, more kids would be getting that?

Might be interesting to research average scores at different hospitals and see if there are differences that may mean patterns in the hospital results (arising from procedures) or measuring standards (though these seem quite distinct).

What do I know. I haven't yet delivered.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:47:35 +0000

you can always ask what the average is. I remember them telling me our baby got an 8 and then a 9 and said they were surprised, they said babies never get 10s at that hospital, so…the nurses will know.

By: redhawk

redhawk — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This was a good idea for an article. Back when I worked in special ed, we always asked about APGAR when doing assessments.

By: wahoodad

wahoodad — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I think Kaplan is starting up an APGAR Prep class so overachieving parents can make sure their kid scores high…

By: BmoreDad

BmoreDad — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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Damn straight!