Memory Joggers: Glasgow Coma Scale
Prognostic Indicator
Eyes open
- Spontaneous 4
- Verbal Comm 3
- To Pain 2
- No Response 1
Verbal Response
- Oriented & Converse 5
- Disoriented & Converse 4
- Inappropriate Words 3
- Incomprehensible Words 2
- No Response 1
Motor Response
- Obey Verbal Command 6
- To Painful Stimulus:
- Localized Painful Stimulus 5
- Flexion or Withdrawal 4
- Decorticate Rigidity 3
- Decerebrate Rigidity 2
- No Response 1
SCALE 3-15
Spontaneous eye opening- Reticular act. sys. Intact
No response - suggests medullary involvement or spinal cord injury
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