Background: To study the effect of maternal anaemia on APGAR score of newborn and to compare it with that of non-anaemic mothers. Methods: In this cross sectional study 100 subjects were divided into two groups; each containing 50 subjects on the basis of consecutive non probability sampling . Group A included 50 anaemic pregnant women (haemoglobin < 11.0 g/dl) and group B 50 non-anaemic(haemog...

In the 38 years that have elapsed since Virginia Apgar described a scoring system for the assessment of the condition of infants at birth, the Apgar score has achieved legendary status as the 'gold standard' outcome measure for countless studies. In light of modem perinatal practice, it is important to assess the value of the score does it still measure what it originally intended to? Is the sc...

OBJECTIVE Evaluation of the relationship between umbilical coiling index (UCI) and adverse perinatal outcome. METHOD A prospective study was performed on 699 pregnant women who were 37-40 weeks. UCI was determined by dividing the total number of the complete vascular coiling by the total umbilical cord length in centimeters. Then the relationship between UCI and neonatal weight, amniotic flui...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To determine if a team dedicated to basic neonatal resuscitation in the delivery ward of a teaching hospital would impact the outcome of neonates delivered in Kampala, Uganda. METHODS A five-member team of nurses, trained in basic neonatal resuscitation attended 1046 deliveries over a thirty-one day pilot period. They were available in the delivery ward twenty-four hours e...

A retrospective analysis of 1- and 5-minute Apgar scores of patients at term gestation (37 to 42 weeks) with evidence of clinical intra-amniotic infection and meconium-stained amniotic fluid was performed. The patients were selected from the labor and delivery records of two Detroit hospitals during the study period from January 1988 through May 1994. The author suggests that the presence of cl...

A simplified clinical method of assessment of the baby soon after birth was evaluated and compared with the cord blood pH and 1 min Apgar score. The assessment recorded cry, respiration, colour, activity, reflex response, and cord pulsation. Sixty-two neonates born at term by normal vaginal delivery with 1 min Apgar score of 0-6 (n = 31) and 7-10 (n = 31) were studied. Linear correlation coeffi...