A definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

invention (n)

Pronunciation: in-’ven(t)-sh&n

1: discovery, finding

2: productive imagination

3: (a): something invented, as (1): a product of the imagination, especially, a false conception, (2): a device, contrivance, or process originated after study and experiment.

4: the act or process of inventing

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Virginia Apgar was a trailblazer: one of Columbia University’s first female M.D.s (1933), and one of the first American women to specialize in surgery. Frustrated by chauvinism during her internship, Apgar changed her focus to anesthesiology, which became a specific and separate medical discipline thanks to her. In 1949, she became Columbia’s first-ever full Professor of Anesthesiology.

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In 1959, Apgar was appointed Director of the March of Dimes. In that capacity, she continued her energetic efforts to improve the healthcare of infants and children. By the time of her death in 1974, Virginia Apgar was admired for her great contributions to society as well as to science.

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Apgar’s research on anesthesia and childbirth led to her greatest innovation: the Newborn Scoring System --better known as the “Apgar Score”-- for assessing the health of newborn infants, which she conceived in 1949, refined, and finally published in 1953.

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Apgar's system assigns a maximum Apgar's system assigns a maximum score of 2 points each for 5 criteria: score of 2 points each for 5 criteria: respiratory effort, reflex irritability, respiratory effort, reflex irritability, muscle tone, heart rate, and color. muscle tone, heart rate, and color. The assessment is made at one and The assessment is made at one and five minutes after birth (at fifteen five minutes after birth (at fifteen minutes for babies born by cesarean minutes for babies born by cesarean section). A perfect score of 10 and 10 section). A perfect score of 10 and 10 is rare in practice; but a score of at is rare in practice; but a score of at least 7 and 7 virtually guarantees a least 7 and 7 virtually guarantees a newborn's health. A lower score newborn's health. A lower score alerts obstetricians to the possibility alerts obstetricians to the possibility of latent problems (e.g., of latent problems (e.g., hemorrhaging, asphyxia), which can hemorrhaging, asphyxia), which can then, if necessary, be detected and then, if necessary, be detected and treated on the spot. treated on the spot.

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Apgar's diagnostic regimen has saved countless lives, and has long been a standard worldwide. The compliment of one famous physician holds true: "Every baby born in a modern hospital anywhere in the world is looked at first through the eyes of Virginia Apgar." Next Slide

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Author Unknown. The Lemelson-MIT Awards Program’s INVENTION DIMENSION. 2000.

http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsA-H/apgar.html

Mayeaux, Jr., M.D., E.J. “Apgar Scores”. 1994.

http://lib-sh.lsumc.edu/fammed/intern.apgar.htmlMerriam-Webster, Incorporated. “WWWebster

Dictionary”. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam- Webster Incorporated, 2000.

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