ArticleFrontiers in medicine2021
Validity of Apgar Score as an Indicator of Neonatal SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Scoping Review.
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- A spectrum of pathological changes induced by SARS-COV-2: An observational study in a cohort of pregnant women from Mizoram, India.Gynecology and obstetrics clinical medicine · 2023Article
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- Characteristics and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 positivity in neonates born to mothers with COVID-19 in Klang Valley, Malaysia: a retrospective observational study.IJID regions · 2022Article
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Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had profound impacts on healthcare systems worldwide, particularly regarding the care of pregnant women and their neonates. The use of the Apgar score-a discrete numerical index used to evaluate neonatal condition immediately following delivery that has been used ubiquitously as a clinical indicator of neonatal condition and widely reported in the literature for decades-has continued during the pandemic. Although health systems adopted protocols that addressed pregnant women and their neonates during the pandemic, limited research has assessed the validity of Apgar scores for determining neonatal conditions in the context of COVID-19. Therefore, this scoping review was conducted on the first 2 years of the pandemic and included mothers with reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction confirmed COVID-19 and their resulting positive or negative neonates. In total, 1,966 articles were assessed for eligibility, yielding 246 articles describing 663 neonates. Neonates who tested negative had median Apgar scores of 9 and 9 at 1 and 5 mins, respectively, while test-positive neonates had median Apgar scores of 8 and 9 at the same time points. The proportions of test-negative neonates with Apgar scores below 7 were 29 (4%) and 11 (2%) at 1 and 5 mins, which was not statistically significant (
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