The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is widely used to assess head-injured patients. However, patients with acute severe head injury are typically managed with varying doses of sedative drugs that may interfere with GCS assessments. There is a question as to whether GCS assessments are useful and ...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Introduction: The Glasgow coma scale (GCS) is an important tool for grading the level of consciousness. One of the most important problems of the GCS is the inability to assess the verbal response in special patients su...
GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus ICU: Intensive care unit LOS: Length of stay MV: mechanical ventilation NPV: Negative predictive value OR: Odds ratio PPV: Positive predictive value RCT: Randomized clinical trial ROC: Receiver operating characteristics SD: Stan...
The demographic data, such as age and gender, were considered. The vital signs category incorporates parameters such as body temperature (Temp), Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP), including Diastolic Blood Pressure and Systolic Blood Pressure, Respiratory Rate (RR), and the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) a...
Related to Glasgow coma scale:Glasgow Outcome Scale,NIH Stroke Scale Glasgow Coma Scale n. A scale for measuring level of consciousness, especially after a head injury, in which scoring is determined by three factors: the ability to open the eyes, verbal responsiveness, and motor responsiveness....
setting. Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS score) is also used widely to assess the severity of a traumatic head injury. Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS score) is composed of three tests, namely eye, verbal, and motor response. The highest possible GCS score is 15 (E4V5M6), while the lowest is 3 (E...
Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score and history of fall. However, we did include many covariates, the number approaching what could be considered as an upper limit from the statistical point of view considering the number of events. The CFS has good sensitivity, specificity and predictive validity [...
The prognostic accuracy of qSOFA was evaluated in different countries, with most studies conducted in the United States of America and Europe, followed by Asia, Africa, New Zealand and Australia. The cut-off values of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) used in all these studies to determine altered...
The worst Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score17, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score18, Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI)19, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)20 were obtained within 24 h of admission and used to reflect disease severity at admission. ...
1 Of brain injuries among patients presenting to the ED, most are classified as mild TBI (mTBI) or concussion, defined by an initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 13 to 15.2,3 Despite the classification of mild, mTBI can lead to persistent physical, neuropsychiatric, and cognitive ...