Front Pediatr. 2017 Mar 20;5:45. doi: 10.3389/fped.2017.00045. eCollection 2017.
Frontiers in pediatrics
John S Torday, Heber C Nielsen
PMID: 28373969 PMCID: PMC5357830 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2017.00045
One of the first "tools" used for systematically evaluating successful newborn transitional physiology at birth was the Apgar Score, devised by Virginia Apgar in 1953. This objective assessment tool allowed clinicians to immediately gauge the relative success of a newborn infant making the transition from the
Keywords: Apgar score; adaptation; gene duplication; glucocorticoid receptor; parathyroid hormone-related protein receptor; water–land transition; β-adrenergic receptor