Virginia Apgar
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Virginia Apgar, M.D. (June 7, 1909 - August 7, 1974) specialised in anesthesia and childbirth. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1929, and Columbia University in 1933.
In 1953, she introduced the first test, called the Apgar score, to assess the health of newborn babies. It is administered one minute and five minutes after birth, and sometimes also at 10 minutes.
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External links
- Mount Holyoke biography
- Columbia biography
- MIT biography
- PBS
- National Women's Hall of Fame
- Changing the Face of Medicine
- Full biography on WhoNamedIt.com
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