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Glasgow Coma Scale
The Glasgow Coma Scale is used as a preliminary evaluation tool to gauge the severity of a TBI. It measures post-trauma eye opening abilities, verbal responses and motor responses, assigning each area a score. The scores from each section are then added together for a total score. The lower the score the worse the initial traumatic brain injury.
GLASGOW COMA SCALE
| ABILITY |
SCORE
|
| Eye Opening (E) |
|
| Spontaneous |
4 |
| To speech |
3 |
| To pain |
2 |
| No response |
1 |
| |
|
| Best Motor Response (M) |
|
| To verbal command: obeys |
6 |
| To painful stimulus: localizes pain |
5 |
| Flexion-withdrawal |
4 |
| Flexion-abnormal |
3 |
| Extension |
2 |
| No response |
1 |
| |
|
| Best Verbal Response (V) |
|
| Oriented and converses |
5 |
| Disoriented and converses |
4 |
| Inappropriate words |
3 |
| Incomprehensible sounds |
2 |
| No response |
1 |
Score: Eye score (E) + Motor score (M) + Verbal score (V) = 3 to 15