COMEDK 2007 MCQ Answer 54
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APGAR SCORE: a composite measure of the physical health of an infant, assessed at one and five minutes after birth, and used to predict the infant’s chances of survival. Five easily identifiable characteristics of the baby are assessed on a scale of 0 to 2, with 2 being optimum: heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability, and color. The Apgar score is the sum of these scores, with a score of 7 or higher indicating that the infant is in good physical condition, and a score of 10 being perfect.
APGAR SCORE: a composite measure of the physical health of an infant, assessed at one and five minutes after birth, and used to predict the infant’s chances of survival. Five easily identifiable characteristics of the baby are assessed on a scale of 0 to 2, with 2 being optimum: heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability, and color. The Apgar score is the sum of these scores, with a score of 7 or higher indicating that the infant is in good physical condition, and a score of 10 being perfect.
Factors affecting apgar score:
- Prematurity
- Drugs-sedatives,narcotics,mgso4
- A/c cerebral trauma
- Precipitate labor Cong. Myopathy
- Cong. Neuropathy
- Spinal cord trauma
- CNS anomaly Lungs-diaphragmatic hernia
- Airway-choanal atresia
- Cong. Pneumonia (GBS)
- Maternal acidosis
- High fetal catecholamine levels
- Some full term infants
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