The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is a clinical scale used to reliably measure a person's level of consciousness after a brain injury. The GCS assesses a person...
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Paediatric Glasgow Coma Scale (British English) or the Pediatric Glasgow Coma Score (American English) or simply PGCS is the equivalent of the Glasgow Coma Scale...
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A coma scale is a system to assess the severity of coma. There are several such systems: The Glasgow Coma Scale is neurological scale which aims to give...
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command. It can also be defined as having a score of 8 or less on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) for at least 6 hours. For a patient to maintain consciousness...
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FOUR score (redirect from FOUR Score Coma Scale)
main clinical grading scale in use for patients with impaired level of consciousness has historically been the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), which cannot be...
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AVPU (redirect from AVPU scale)
simplification of the Glasgow Coma Scale, which assesses a patient response in three measures: eyes, voice and motor skills. The AVPU scale should be assessed...
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The Blantyre coma scale is a modification of the Pediatric Glasgow Coma Scale, designed to assess malarial coma in children. It was designed by Terrie...
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Closed-head injury (section Glasgow Coma Scale)
brain. Severe diffuse axonal injuries often lead to comas or vegetative states. The Glasgow Coma Scale is commonly used to assess the severity of traumatic...
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Concussion grading systems (redirect from Concussion grading scale)
Originally developed by Teasdale and Jennett in 1974, the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is a scoring scale for eye opening, motor, and verbal responses that can...
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state are said to be stuporous. Coma is the inability to make any purposeful response. Scales such as the Glasgow coma scale have been designed to measure...
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