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Glasgow coma scale

Overview

The Glasgow Coma Scale is a neurological assessment tool to measure the severity of brain injury based on a patient's response to stimuli, including eye opening, motor response, and verbal response. It assigns a score ranging from 3 to 15, with higher scores indicating better neurological function.

  • Spontaneous: 4 points
  • To verbal stimuli, command, speech: 3 points
  • To pain only: 2 points
  • No response: 1 point

  • Oriented: 5 points
  • Confused conversation, but able to answer questions: 4 points
  • Inappropriate words: 3 points
  • Incomprehensible speech: 2 points
  • No response: 1 point

  • Obeys commands: 6 points
  • Purposeful movement to painful stimulus: 5 points
  • Withdraws in response to pain: 4 points
  • Flexion in response to pain (decorticate posturing): 3 points
  • Extension response in response to pain (decerebrate posturing): 2 points
  • No response: 1 point

  • Evaluate brain function
  • Communicate a patient’s condition
  • Group patients into severity categories

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