Sentences with phrase «apgar points»
«We also need to work actively with the babies who do not score full Apgar points since it is likely to improve their prospects.»
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One and a half percent of the newborns had a low Apgar score, which is a measure of a baby's health in the first minutes after birth, and 2.5 percent were admitted to the intensive care unit in a hospital at some point during the six weeks after birth.
This is where most babies lose points on the APGAR scoring.
Apgar is a point system routinely used at birth to assess a neonate's vitality at one, five and ten minutes after birth.
It is well known that a low Apgar score of between 0 and 6 points at one or five minutes after birth is linked to a higher risk of cerebral palsy (CP) and epilepsy, and that a very low score of between 0 and 3 points at ten minutes indicates a significantly higher risk of CP.
The researchers point out, however, that it was an observational study and that no definite conclusions about causality between Apgar score and the risk of neurological morbidity in babies can be drawn.