All scores are not numbers: the Apgar score

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan. onixile@icloud.com.
² Department of Obstetric Anesthesiology, Center for Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Kawagoe, Japan.

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Kazutoshi Onitsuka et al. J Anesth. 2025.

. 2025 Oct 22.

doi: 10.1007/s00540-025-03606-7. Online ahead of print.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan. onixile@icloud.com.
² Department of Obstetric Anesthesiology, Center for Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Kawagoe, Japan.

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