Word: apgar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez Assistant Professor Helen F. Ladd Assistant Professor Howard S. Bloom Assistant Professor Jeff Manditch Prottas Assistant Professor Gordon Clark Assistant Professor Carol J. Thomas Lecturer Belden Hull Daniels Lecturer John M. Yinger Assistant Professor Avis C. Vidal Assistant Professor Don Pickrell Assistant Professor William C. Apgar, Jr. Assistant Professor William F. Lincoln Lecturer Thomas Saitonstall Lecturer
Died. Dr. Virginia Apgar, 65, wise, industrious specialist in the treatment of newborn babies and birth defects; of a probable pulmonary embolus; in Manhattan. A graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Apgar later became its first professor of anesthesiology and first female full professor. In 1952 she perfected the Apgar Score, an evaluation of five physical functions-heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes and skin color-made within the first minute of a child's life, and again five minutes later. A low score is a prompt identification of a need for special care...