Question

This is defined as "A widely used method of assessing the health of newborns at one and five minutes after birth." This scale "...evaluates an infant's heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, body color, and reflex irritability."

Answer 1

Answer: Apgar scale

Explanation:

Apgar scale is used to test the newborn health based on the criteria of five parameters that are appearance, activity or muscle tone, respiration, pulse or heart rate and grimace or reflex responses given by the new born.

Each parameter is judged upon a scale of 0 to 2 and 2 is expected to be the best score.

The given situation is indicative of apgar scale to evaluate the parameters like appearance or body color, activity or muscle tone, grimace or reflex irritability, respiration, and heart rate or pulse.