NEUROMUSCULAR MATURITY SCORE
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Score | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
Posture |
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Square Window |
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Arm Recoil |
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Popliteal Angle |
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Scarf Sign |
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Heel To Ear |
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TOTAL NEUROMUSCULAR MATURITY SCORE | ||||||||
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PHYSICAL MATURITY SCORE
Sign | Sign Score | |||||||
Score | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
Skin |
Sticky, friable,
transparent |
gelatinous, red,
translucent |
smooth pink,
visible veins |
superficial peeling
&\or rash, few veins |
cracking, pale areas,
rare veins |
parchment, deep cracking,
no vessels |
leathery, cracked,
wrinkled |
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Lanugo | none | sparse | abundant | thinning | bald areas | mostly bald | ||
Plantar Surface |
heel-toe
40-50mm: -1 <40mm: -2 |
>50 mm
no crease |
faint red marks |
anterior transverse
anterior transverse crease only |
creases ant.
2/3 |
creases over
entire sole |
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Breast | imperceptable |
barely
perceptable |
Flat areola
no bud |
stippled areola
1-2 mm bud |
raised areola
3-4 mm bud |
full areola
5-10 mm bud |
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Eye / Ear |
lids fused
loosely: -1 tightly: -2 |
lids open
pinna flat stays folded |
sl. curved pinna;
soft; slow recoil |
well-curved pinna;
soft but ready recoil |
formed & firm
instant recoil |
thick cartilage
ear stiff |
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TOTAL BALLARD SCORE | ||||||||
ESTIMATED GESTATIONAL AGE |
TOTAL PHYSICAL MATURITY SCORE | ||
TOTAL BALLARD SCORE | ||
ESTIMATED GESTATIONAL AGE |