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172928 https://hdl.handle.net/10776/12962 2017-07-23 eng Abboud, Carolina Arizona State University. School of Life Sciences. Center for Biology and Society. Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Arizona Board of Regents open access http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ In 1953, Virginia Apgar published the article "A Proposal for a New Method for Evaluation of the Newborn Infant" about her method for scoring newborn infants directly after birth to assess their health and whether medical intervention was necessary. Apgar worked at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, New York, as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, a physician who administers pain medication during childbirth. In that capacity, she sought to reestablish clear scoring guidelines for newborn infants so that she could compare which obstetric practices, pain relief methods, and resuscitation methods worked the best during and after childbirth. She published her article in Current Researches in Anesthesia and Analgesia in 1953, and the Apgar scoring system is still used in hospitals around the world as of 2016. In the article, Apgar establishes a scoring system for newborn infants that allows for quick assessment of their health directly after birth and therefore swift intervention by medical personnel to promote healthy development. Literature Obstetrics Anesthesiology Cesarean Section Delivery (Obstetrics) Breech delivery Apgar Score Breech Presentation Publications Apgar, Virginia, 1909-1974 Presbyterian Hospital (New York, N.Y.) Columbia University. College of Physicians and Surgeons Sloane Hospital for Women (New York, N.Y.) "A Proposal for a New Method of Evaluation of the Newborn Infant" (1953), by Virginia Apgar