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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Dr. Virginia Apgar

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Virginia Apgar broke new ground in the fields of obstetrics and anesthesiology in the middle of the 20th century. When babies are born today, one of the tools doctors use to measure whether they're thriving on their own is the Apgar score.

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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseofWorks.com.

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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.

0:46.7

So if you've had a baby in like the last 60 years or been present

0:50.7

when somebody else had a baby or a baby even just watched a TV show

0:53.7

in which babies were born, you probably heard people talking about apgar scores.

0:58.7

Yeah, but I never gave it much thought, not being particularly a baby person.

1:03.7

So yeah, I thought this was an acronym, and while somebody did rework

1:06.7

the parts of the apgar score so that it matched up with the letters of her name

1:10.7

in about 1962, the score itself is from earlier than that,

1:14.7

and it's the work of Dr. Virginia Apgar.

1:17.7

He really broke new ground in the fields of obstetrics and anesthesiology,

1:20.7

as well as other fields in the middle of the 20th century.

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