[The 100th anniversary of the birthday of Virginia Apgar. In honor of the developer of the Apgar score].
The 7th of June 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the birthday of the American anaesthesiologist Virginia Apgar. The Apgar score for evaluation of the newborn created by her in 1952 and later named after her is one of the most popular and most often used medical scoring systems.
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Zentrum Anästhesiologie, HELIOS-Klinikum Wuppertal, Heusnerstr. 40, 42283 Wuppertal, Deutschland. ludwig.brandt@helios-kliniken.de
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D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000266:history; D001034:Apgar Score; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000266:history*