neurological and adaptive capacity score(English)

• test for evaluating effects of obstetric medication on the full-term neonate. Designed as a screening test to detect central nervous system depression from drugs and also to differentiate these effects from those found after birth trauma and perinatal asphyxia. The NACS is based on 20 criteria, each of which is given a score of 0, 1, or 2. These criteria assess five general areas: 1) adaptive capacity; 2) passive tone; 3) active tone; 4) primary reflexes; and 5) alertness, crying, and motor activity (general observations). It places, in contrast to the ENNS, more emphasis on motor tone, avoids the use of noxious stimuli (pinprick, repeated Moro examinations), takes half the time to perform, while providing for any given baby a single number that immediately identifies a depressed or vigorous neonate
• CNS, ENNS
• Screening, Scoring systems/scales, Neuropathy, Neonatal situation, Obstetrics, Adaptation & plasticity, Pharmacology / pharmaceutics
• https://doi.org…198205000-00003