The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is now used in hospitals around the world and is often mentioned on TV medical dramas. It all began when Sir Graham Teasdale and Prof Bryan Jennett sought their own ...

The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is the most widely used method for evaluation of coma, but it has a number of shortcomings, including limited utility in intubated patients and an inability to assess ...

Forty years after its initial implementation, the Glasgow Coma Scale has been… Have a question about nursing? Ask Nursing Times has now answered over 100,000 questions helping students and nurses in ...

which can help be determined by use of what's known as the Glasgow Coma Scale. A numerical score is determined based on three ...

In individuals with severe traumatic brain injury or a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3-8, this response can be exaggerated and episodic. A term commonly used by nurses caring for these individuals ...

Baldock, Andrew James and Bennett, Tom 2015. Critical intracranial hypertension with Glasgow Coma Scale of 15. Archives of Disease in Childhood, Vol. 100, Issue. 2, p. 207. The management of ...

[4] In this context, coma is defined as a state of unarousable (impairment of arousal) unresponsiveness (impairment of cognitive content) in which the subject lies with their eyes closed.

The victim, who was heavily intoxicated and dressed only in a pair of shorts after a day on the beach, was rushed to a ...

Recent examples of mishandled head injuries serve as a worthy lesson on the need for consistency when dealing with symptoms ...

Patients were scored on the Glasgow Coma Scale and the Rancho Los Amigos Cognitive Scale before and 1 h after drug treatment; in each patient, dramatic improvements on both scales were recorded ...

Doctors may use several tests to arrive at a diagnosis, such as the Glasgow Coma scale, neurological exams to assess cognition, coordination, and movement, CT or MRI scans, and blood tests.