If no value is recorded before intubation, a score of 15 is assumed [14]. However, the timing of intubation is critically dependent on the judgment of the clinician, and a considerable proportion of intubation is due to the patient's impaired consciousness [15]. The central nervous system ...
9. You’re assessing a patient’s Glasgow Coma Scale at the bedside. What is the patient’s score based on these findings: when you arrive to the patient’s bedside the patient’s eyes are closed but they open when you speak to the patient. The nurse cannot assess best verbal response ...
The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is a widely used clinical tool for assessing impaired consciousness, but concerns arise when applied to intubated patients or those receiving analgesics, sedatives, and paralytics because verbal scores are not evaluable. Furthermore, the GCS does not ...
Conclusion: It was concluded that the FOUR score is more beneficial to that of GCS and can be used in outcome assessment in traumatic head injury and intubated patients. Thus, FOUR score is a better tool for prognostication.Keerthi, Sri