Healers

Virginia Apgar

Physician and Anesthesiologist

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Medicine Atlas. "Virginia Apgar." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/virginia-apgar.

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Medicine Atlas. (n.d.). Virginia Apgar. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/virginia-apgar

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@misc{medicineatlas-virginia-apgar,
  author = {Medicine Atlas},
  title = {Virginia Apgar},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/virginia-apgar},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Virginia Apgar was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. In 1952, she developed the 10-point score, measuring a child's breathing, skin color, reflexes, motion, and heart rate at one and five minutes after birth.

Facts

Birth Yearthe subject's own account

1909 1

Birth Datethe subject's own account

1909-06-07 1

Death Yearthe subject's own account

1974 1

Death Datethe subject's own account

1974-08-07 1

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Virginia Apgar was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. In 1952, she developed the 10-point Apgar score to assist physicians and nurses in assessing the status of newborns. Given at one minute and five minutes after birth, the Apgar test measures a child's breathing, skin color, reflexes, motion, and heart rate.

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