Who created it and what is the name of the scoring system that evaluates the health of newborn babies only minutes after they are born to ensure they receive proper care?

Sofie

The Apgar score was devised in 1952 by Virginia Apgar as a simple and repeatable method to quickly and summarily assess the health of newborn children immediately after childbirth. The Apgar score is determined by evaluating the newborn baby on five simple criteria on a scale from zero to two and summing up the five values thus obtained. The resulting Apgar score ranges from zero to 10. The five criteria were used as a mnemonic learning aid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apgar Feb 14 07, 3:55 PM

gman89

Virginia Apgar, it is called the Apgar score. It stands for Activity, Pulse, Grimace, Appearance, and Respiration. http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_newborn/pregnancy/apgar.html Feb 14 07, 3:57 PM