• Used for standardized clinical assessment of newborns at 1 and 5 minutes after birth
• Assessment of the Apgar score at 5 minutes: infants with scores < 7 may require further intervention
  • Reassuring: 7–10
  • Moderately abnormal: 4–6
  • Low: 0–3
• In infants with a score below 7, the Apgar assessment is performed at 5–minute intervals for an additional 20 minutes.
• Persistently low Apgar scores are associated with long-term neurologic sequelae.