This app is intended to help students learn the Apgar Score.
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The Apgar Score is a method to quickly summarize the health of a newborn baby by evaluating 5 signs on a scale from 0 to 2 and then summing the values.
Measurements are typically taken at 1 and 5 minutes after birth. It is important to remember that the scale starts at 0.
APGAR is an acronym for the five signs: Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, and Respiration.
The scoring criteria are:
| Appearance | |
|---|---|
| Value | Condition |
| 0: | Blue or pale all over |
| 1: | Pink trunk with blue extremities |
| 2: | Trunk and extremities pink |
| Pulse rate | |
| Value | Condition |
| 0: | Absent |
| 1: | < 100 beats per minute |
| 2: | > 100 beats per minute |
| Grimace | |
| Value | Condition |
| 0: | No response to stimulation |
| 1: | Some grimace on stimulation |
| 2: | Grimace or cry on stimulation |
| Activity | |
| Value | Condition |
| 0: | Absent |
| 1: | Some flexion |
| 2: | Actively moving |
| Respiration | |
| Value | Condition |
| 0: | Absent |
| 1: | Weak, irregular, gasping |
| 2: | Strong with a robust cry |
As one can imagine this app will occasionally produce an unrealistic combination of conditions. For example, in the real world, a newborn would not be expected to be blue all over, have an absent pulse, have no response to stimulation, exhibit no activity, and yet have a strong and robust cry. Such a situation will appear as an app combination once in every 243 times on average.
Note that there is a nomenclature difference between the Apgar (or APGAR) Score and the Glasgow Coma Scale. The Apgar Score refers to both the system and the system's final sum; whereas, the Glasgow Coma Scale refers to the system, and the GCS's score is the final sum. The difference can be remembered by focusing on the ale in Scale and realizing that a baby would not be drinking ale.
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