Sentences with phrase «given apgar»

Maybe most of the near misses end up transferring so they are given their APGAR scores at the hospital.

Not exact matches

Tell that to the NURSE who told me if I didn't let her give me Pitocin that my baby would be born «with apgars of zero — that means dead.»

Being able to take baby over to the warmer quickly, assess baby, give baby some APGAR scores and then get baby back to mom's chest it doesn't interfere with my operation and it doesn't interfere necessarily with what the anesthesiologist is trying to make sure that mom is doing ok.

One baby born at home had a low Apgar score but responded rapidly when the midwife gave bag and mask resuscitation.

Immediately, your baby is whisked across the room to the warmer where Apgar scores are assigned, he's given a shot of Vitamin K, and antibiotic eye ointment is slathered in his eyes, clouding his vision.

I'll give you another study to consider: Amos Grunebaum, a well - respected currently practicing OB - GYN has found that babies born at home are 10x more likely to have a 5 - minute Apgar score of 0.

Though this was a relatively small, retrospective study, the results did reveal that women who were given Pitocin to induce or augment their labors did have an increased risk of having a baby with lower Apgar scores or who required admission to the NICU.

The AAP noted that babies are able to latch on to their mother's breast without any assistance and shouldn't be disturbed, so some necessary tasks, like assigning Apgar scores and giving the mother and baby ID bracelets, can happen while the child is on the mother's chest during that golden hour.

They claim a low rate of low apgars, implying that their rate of hypoxia is low, but given the poor ability of non-CNM midwives to assess apgars, I don't think the claim is meaningful.

We thought at first that there may be risk for confounding if the control group used uterotonics or analgesics, but our review of the latest systematic reviews gave us no reason to suspect that this would confound the results; though it was interesting that neonatal safety of uterotonics and analgesics was determined based on limited outcomes of APGARs and NICU admission.

Narrator: The very first test your newborn receives is the Apgar score — given one minute after birth and again at five minutes.