Virginia
Apgar started medical school at Columbia and graduated in
1933, one of just nine women in a class of 90.
She became a professor of Anaesthesiology in 1949 and
by 1952 she had invented a scoring
system to evaluate the health status of new born babies.
The scoring system used her name:
A Appearance
P Pulse
G Grimace
A Activity
R Respiration.
This scale is still used today.
Thanks to Women
of Invention by Charlotte Montague
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