Glasgow Coma Scale

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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


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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
  • How about aphasic patients?
    • Dr. Robersts says score as 15
  • how about e.g. a patient with Down's syndrome?
    • we are not scoring IQ, if they function as usual, score 15



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