When Virginia Apgar, MD, proposed her now-universal scoring system for newborns in 1953, her primary purpose was to get attention paid to the newborn because, as she wrote, “Nine months observation of the mother surely warrants one-minute observation of the baby.”¹ After the national Collaborative Perinatal Study showed that low Apgar scores occurred more frequently in those who died in the neonatal period or had higher rates of neurological morbidity at 1 year of life, the Apgar score spread to where it is now assigned to newborns in almost every country in the world. A PubMed search for Apgar score yields almost 12 000 publications.

1953 年，医学博士弗吉尼亚·阿普加 (Virginia Apgar) 提出她现在通用的新生儿评分系统时，她的主要目的是引起对新生儿的关注，因为正如她所写，“对母亲的 9 个月观察肯定需要对新生儿进行一分钟的观察。婴儿。” ¹在全国围产期协作研究表明，在新生儿期死亡或 1 岁时神经系统疾病发病率较高的患者中，Apgar 评分较低的发生率更高，之后，Apgar 评分传播到现在分配给新生儿的几乎世界上每个国家。对 Apgar 评分的 PubMed 搜索产生了近 12 000 篇出版物。