{"id":72,"date":"2009-02-27T02:18:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T02:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/neuroglasgow\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:59:07","slug":"neuroglasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/neuroglasgow\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow Coma Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p>The Glasgow Coma Scale provides a score in the range 3-15; patients with scores of 3-8 are usually said to be in a coma. The total score is the sum of the scores in three categories. For adults the scores are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 96px;\" rowspan=\"4\" width=\"16%\">Eye Opening<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Response Spontaneous: open with blinking at baseline<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">4 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Opens to verbal command, speech, or shout<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">3 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Opens to pain, not applied to face<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">2 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">None<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">1 point<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 120px;\" rowspan=\"5\" width=\"16%\">Verbal Response<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Oriented<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">5 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Confused conversation, but able to answer questions<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">4 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Inappropriate responses, words discernible<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">3 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Incomprehensible speech<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">2 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">None<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">1 point<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 144px;\" rowspan=\"6\" width=\"16%\">Motor Response<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Obeys commands for movement<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">6 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Purposeful movement to painful stimulus<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">5 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Withdraws from pain<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">4 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Abnormal (spastic) flexion, decorticate posture<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">3 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">Extensor (rigid) response, decerebrate posture<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">2 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"70%\">None<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" width=\"14%\">1 point<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Bibliograf\u00eda:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Teasdale G, Jennett B. Assessment of coma and impaired consciousness. A practical scale. Lancet. 1974 Jul 13;2(7872):81-4.<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/4136544\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Created: Abr 28, 2008<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[1286,1200,1300,450,1375],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical-care","tag-coma","tag-glasgow","tag-neurology","tag-score","tag-uti"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9084,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/9084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}