How do medics calculate GCS? What is GCS?!
Question: Im not sure what it is, or how to calculet it.
Thanks all.
Answers: Im not sure what it is, or how to calculet it.
Thanks all.
The Glasgow Coma Scale or GCS, sometimes also known as the Glasgow Coma Score is a neurological scale which aims to give a reliable, objective way of recording the conscious state of a person, for initial as well as continuing assessment. A patient is assessed against the criteria of the scale, and the resulting points give a patient score between 3 (indicating deep unconsciousness) and either 14 (original scale) or 15 (the more widely used modified or revised scale).
Best eye response (E)
There are 4 grades starting with the most severe:
1. No eye opening
2. Eye opening in response to pain. (Patient responds to pressure on the patient