Glasgow Coma Scale
The Glasgow Coma Scale is a ... [1]
The Glasgow Coma Scale is used to calculate the APACHE II score and the MOST score.
The possible values stored as dropdown lists on your PDA and in Access are as follows:
| Score | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Eyes | Spontaneous | To
Speech |
To
Pain |
None | ||
| Motor | Obeys
Command |
Localizes
Pain |
Withdraws
to Pain |
Abnormal
Flexion |
Abnormal
Extension |
None |
| Verbal | Oriented | Confused | Inappropriate
words |
Incomprehensible
sounds |
None | |
| Verbal vented | Appears Oriented | ? Oriented | No response |
Discussion
- Under verbal, also have options under ventilated patient: appears orientated, ? orientated, no response, need to add.--LKolesar 12:20, 29 May 2008 (CDT)
- If you tell me which columns they go under, I will add them. --Ttenbergen
- Aphasic or intubated patients?
- Dr. Roberts says score as 15. If a patient can communicate by writing rather than talking, then assume normal.
- how about e.g. a patient with Down's syndrome?
- we are not scoring IQ, if they function as usual, score 15