Apgar Score
Assesses early newborn transition through five observational domains.
What is Apgar Score?
Apgar Score: Assesses early newborn transition through five observational domains. Active calculation. Population: Newborns in the first minutes after birth.…
Population and scope
Newborn Assessment. Newborns in the first minutes after birth
Also searched as
Apgar · apgar · apgar score · test de apgar
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Clinical use
This PedsCore page brings together clinical information, implementation status and available evidence for Apgar Score. It is intended for Newborns in the first minutes after birth. The tool belongs to Neonatology and should be interpreted in the appropriate clinical context.
Interpretation and validation
Variables, ranges, or rules are described in project documentation; final tracing against primary sources is required before active calculation.
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Editorial transparency
This page is part of an open-source project. Evidence level, implementation status, validation notes and sources are shown explicitly. It currently contains 3 catalog references. Content and calculation changes are reviewed through the public repository, automated tests and version traceability.
The absence of an active calculator is not a clinical recommendation: some tools remain reference-only while source, licensing, exact variant or validation still require review.
Each page lets you verify what is being assessed, which population the tool describes, whether local calculation is available, which limitations remain open and which references support implementation. This context matters when different publications, versions or adaptations share a similar name but are not interchangeable.
References
- Apgar V. A proposal for a new method of evaluation of the newborn infant. Curr Res Anesth Analg. 1953;32(4):260-267.
- American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Fetus and Newborn; American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee on Obstetric Practice. The Apgar Score. Pediatrics. 2015;136(4):819-822; Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126(4):e52-e55.
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; American Academy of Pediatrics. Neonatal Encephalopathy and Neurologic Outcome. 2nd ed. 2014.