Virginia Apgar demonstrating Apgar score
- Title:
- Virginia Apgar demonstrating Apgar score
- Creator:
- The National Foundation-March of Dimes
- Date:
- [1959]
- Description:
- Apgar holds a newborn baby upside-down to test its reflexes, as part of an Apgar evaluation, at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Reflex irritability--in response to tickling the nostrils or gently slapping the feet--is one of the five Apgar score criteria.
- Original Repository:
- Mount Holyoke College. Archives and Special Collections. L. Stanley James Papers [MS 0782]
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of the March of Dimes.
- Genre:
- Photographic prints
- Subject:
- Apgar Score
- Format:
- Still Image
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. Mount Holyoke College. Archives and Special Collections. L. Stanley James Papers [MS 0782]. 12231. Free Text. Box 3, Folder 3: Of Apgar ca. 1920-1974
- Legacy ID:
- CPBBDL
- NLM ID:
- 101584647X51
- Profiles Collection:
- The Virginia Apgar Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584647X51
- Story Section:
- Obstetric Anesthesia and a Scorecard for Newborns, 1949-1958