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The Apgar scoring system is used to evaluate:________ 1. an infant's status immediately after birth and then again five minutes later. 2. weight at birth and at one week after birth. social responses at one day and one week after birth.3. strength of crying, blood pressure, and birth-weight immediately after birth. 4. readiness to be taken home.

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an infant's status immediately after birth and then again five minutes later

Step-by-step explanation:

The Apgar score refers to the measure for infants shortly after their conception. This measure tests the pulse rate, muscle definition and other indications of an infant to see whether it needs additional medical treatment or emergency treatment. Typically the check is issued twice: last week at 1 minute after conception, another at 5 minutes afterwards conception.

Apgar ratings actually act as a very helpful monitoring method for caregivers to interact with one another about what the state of a child was like at childbirth and as a way to make sure that everyone is regularly documenting the young infant's situation.

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