# Virginia Apgar (@virginia-apgar)

Virginia Apgar was a American physician and anesthesiologist. Apgar designed a standardized, rapid assessment of newborn condition based on heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflex response and color.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Virginia Apgar's public record._

## Topics

- [Maternal and Child Health](/@virginia-apgar/maternal-and-child-health.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Principal Contribution](/@virginia-apgar/principal-contribution.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Apgar Score](/@virginia-apgar/the-apgar-score.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/changing-the-face-of-medicine/physicians/biography_virginia_apgar.html
- blog: https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/asa-history/virginia-apgar
- blog: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/cp

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "virginia-apgar", "question": "…"}`.