HIGHER MENTAL FUNCTIONS – GLASGOW COMA SCALE
Neuroanatomical Basis of Glasgow Coma Scale—A Reappraisal
... The evolution of the central pattern generators has made it possible to coordinate the rhythmic movement ac- tivity despite minimal input from the higher control centre just by the process of disinhibition [14]. ...
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Effect of erythropoietin on Glasgow Coma Scale and Glasgow Outcome Scale in patient with diffuse axonal injury
... by harmful condition such as hypoxia. 9 It was also shown that in vitro rhEPO could protect neuronal cells against hypoxic injury. 9 Conse- quently, the possibility arise that brain’s EPO may provide a paracrine ...
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Comparison of APACHE II, MEES and Glasgow Coma Scale in patients with nontraumatic coma for prediction of mortality
... Introduction: There are numerous prehosital descriptive scoring systems, and it is uncertain whether they are efficient in assessing of the severity of illness and whether they have a prognostic role in the estimation of ...
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Comparison of Glasgow Coma Scale and QTC Interval for Predicting Outcomes in Organophosphate Poisoning
... Some patients may be develop CNS features of muscarinic blockade while the systemic cholinergic features may persist. In such circumstances, glycopyrrolate can be used instead of atropine. The dosing is similar to ...
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Outcome of Surgically Treated Acute Traumatic Epidural Hematomas Based on the Glasgow Coma Scale
... In their publication, Lee et al . have found significant correlation between functional outcome and preoperative consciousness state, GCS, pupillary size, motor posturing, associated brain injury, size and density of ...
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Prevalence of CT Scan Findings in Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury with Respect to Glasgow Coma Scale
... CT IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY impairment of such functions. Traumatic brain injury constitutes one of the main health problems worldwide, currently with a high and increasing incidence, representing an important ...
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Glasgow Coma Scale and Full Outline of Unresponsiveness Score Instruments to Determine Patient Outcome: A Systematic Review
... Based on the study result conducted by Silvitasari et al. (2016) in the ICU room without specifying specific diseases, the sensitivity and specificity of FOUR Score was higher than GCS. Therefore, these results ...
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The Glasgow coma scale and evidence informed practice : a critical review of where we are and where we need to be
... It should be clear that if the GCS is evaluating arousability and awareness, which are components of consciousness regulated in the brain and brainstem, then any stimulus used to evaluate consciousness must transmit to ...
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Impact of Glasgow Coma Scale scores on unplanned intensive care unit readmissions among surgical patients
... Interestingly, in the present study, only verbal response at discharge showed significant association with unplanned ICU readmissions rate on sensitivity analysis. This is a novel finding among the studies on patients ...
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Glasgow Coma Scale Does Not Predict Outcome Post Intra Arterial Treatment for Basilar Artery Thrombosis
... in the IA lysis treatment group (50%) compared with the pla- cebo control group (12.5%). 9 Thus, current management algorithms are largely based on observational studies, mainly retrospective, and meta-analy- ses that ...
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Whole Brain Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Traumatic Brain Injury: Correlation with Glasgow Coma Scale Score
... Our study clearly shows an increase in the whole- brain ADCs compared with normal values. However, these results should be viewed in the context of their limitations. First, only a small number of patients with TBI were ...
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An analysis of the relationship between Glasgow Coma Scale score and plasma glucose level according to the severity of hypoglycemia
... Results: Three hundred twenty-six patients with neurological impairments were admitted during the study period, and 41were eligible hypoglycemic patients. The GCS scores of the 14 patients with mild hypoglycemia were ...
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Differential effects of the Glasgow Coma Scale Score and its Components: An analysis of 54,069 patients with traumatic brain injury
... distinguish between poor and good outcome [3]. Other studies have suggested that the eye and verbal components can be omitted without compromising the predictive accuracy of the GCS as the motor score accounts for almost ...
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Is The Combination of Glasgow Coma Scale and Transcranial Doppler Pulsatility Index Improving The Prediction of Outcome in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients?
... outcome scale (GOS) in order to assess the relationship between severity of TBI and long-term functional recovery [6,7] GOS was assessed at 28 th day from ...of higher mental ...
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Inter rater reliability of the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness score and the Glasgow Coma Scale in critically ill patients: a prospective observational study
... a coma scale consisting of four components (eye response, motor response, brainstem reflexes, and respiration pat- tern) was recently proposed by investigators from the Mayo Clinic ...much higher ...
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[Accepted Manuscript] Differential effects of the Glasgow Coma Scale Score and its Components: An analysis of 54,069 patients with traumatic brain injury.
... distinguish between poor and good outcome [3]. Other studies have suggested that the eye and verbal components can be omitted without compromising the predictive accuracy of the GCS as the motor score accounts for almost ...
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Revised trauma scoring system to predict in hospital mortality in the emergency department: Glasgow Coma Scale, Age, and Systolic Blood Pressure score
... (5% to 50%), the mortality rate of these patients was less than that of patients who were reclassified (80.8%). In summary, all patients who were reclassified according to the GAP scoring system were correctly moved into ...
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Forty years on: updating the Glasgow Coma Scale
... of Glasgow; Douglas Allan was senior lecturer, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University; Paul Brennan, is clinical lecturer in neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, ...
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Knowledge of Glasgow coma scale by air-rescue physicians
... More than a third of the air-rescue physicians in Switzer- land imprecisely scored the Glasgow coma scale in this study. Mistakes occur mainly in the assessment of the motor response followed by the ...
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Neurological observations: Glasgow Coma Scale observation chart
... deep coma, but these terms were not clearly defined and there was a great deal of inconsistency when assessment was carried out by different ...the scale and proposed a new structured approach to its use, ...
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