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Usefulness of the Simple Coma Scale, a Simplified Version of the Glasgow Coma Scale [PDF]

Neurotrauma Reports
The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is the most commonly used consciousness rating scale worldwide. Although it is a sensitive and accurate way of assessing a patient’s level of consciousness, it is time-consuming and requires training.
Soichiro Seno, Makoto Aoki, Tetsuro Kiyozumi, Kojiro Wada, Satoshi Tomura   +4 more
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Knowledge of Glasgow Coma Scale among Nurses in a Tertiary Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study [PDF]

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2022
Introduction: Glasgow Coma Scale is a dependable and unprejudiced neurological evaluation kit applied for evaluating and recording the level of consciousness of a person. Evaluation of consciousness level using Glasgow Coma Scale is a tool necessitating
Bidur KC, Mohamed Zaidan Adil
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The Glasgow Coma Scale

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2021
Neal Cook
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The Glasgow Coma Scale and Full Outline of Unresponsiveness score evaluation to predict patient outcomes with neurological illnesses in intensive care units in the West Bank: a prospective cross-sectional study [PDF]

Acute and Critical Care
Background Determining the clinical neurological state of the patient is essential for making decisions and forecasting results. The Glasgow Coma Scale and the Full Outline of Unresponsiveness (FOUR) Scale are commonly used tools for measuring behavioral
Wourod Mahmoud Omar, Imad Rasheed Abu Khader, Salam Bani Hani, Mohammed ALBashtawy   +3 more
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Comparison of admission GCS score to admission GCS-P and FOUR scores for prediction of outcomes among patients with traumatic brain injury in the intensive care unit in India [PDF]

Acute and Critical Care, 2023
Background This study aimed to determine the predictive power of the Full Outline of Unresponsiveness (FOUR) score and the Glasgow Coma Scale Pupil (GCS-P) score in determining outcomes for traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. The Glasgow Outcome Scale
Nishant Agrawal, Shivakumar S Iyer, Vishwanath Patil, Sampada Kulkarni, Jignesh N Shah, Prashant Jedge   +5 more
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Glasgow Coma Scale

British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
Munakomi S, Margetis K, Iverson LM.
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How to encounter the child in coma [PDF]

Reviews in Clinical Medicine, 2014
Non-traumatic coma is a medical emergency and should be evaluated as soon as possible. Pediatric coma is more serious because of patient’s capacity of pathological stressor tolerance is limited especially in neonates.Several etiologies could be listed ...
Mohammad Hassan Aelami, Sepideh Bagheri, Seyed Morteza Rasti Sani   +2 more
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Practice and associated factors of Glasgow Coma Scale assessment among nurses working in adult intensive care units of federally administered hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Nursing Practice Today, 2022
Background & Aim: The Glasgow Coma Scale is a helpful instrument for measuring patients’ level of consciousness with neurosurgical disorders. Literature showed a majority of nurses don’t believe the Glasgow Coma Scale assessment is their area of ...
Habtamu Andualem, Temesgen Beyene, Wagari Tuli, Nigusie Walelgn, Samuel Derbie Habtegiorgis, Wodaje Gietaneh, Molla Yigzaw Birhanu   +6 more
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Validity of Glasgow coma scale and brain computed tomography in predicting outcome of patients with acute traumatic brain injury

Basrah Journal of Surgery, 2023
Background: The most powerful independent prognostic variables were GCS and CT characteristics. Since the introduction of CT imaging, the treatment of patients with head injury has improved considerably and it has become a powerful prognostic tool for ...
Thikra Abdul jebbar Hussein
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Scenario of Head Injury Patients in Tertiary Care Hospital of Nepal

Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2020
Background: The aim of the study is to find out the age and sex distribution, modes of head injury and correlate Glasgow Coma Scale with Computed Tomography in patients with head trauma in our center. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed among
Subodh Sharma Paudel, Ritesh Luitel, Anushruti Bista, Aashish Baniya, Dibya Jyoti Panta, Bibhushana Shrestha, Aditi Singh   +6 more
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