GCS - Glasgow Coma Scale, The parameters


	GCS - Glasgow Coma Scale, The parameters

hyorinmaru

5-9-2008 2:02 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ecde18fa-40e0-457c-b519-03a74d4dc8cb/10EEC7F6-7894-4879-ABA0-766A4684FE03/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glasgow_Coma_Scale&oldid=209925560" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glasgow_Coma_Scale&oldid=209925560" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glasgow_Coma_Scale&oldid=209925560"><P>The scale comprises three tests: <A title="Visual perception" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_perception">eye</A>, <A title="Speech communication" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_communication">verbal</A> and <A title="Motor skill" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_skill">motor</A> responses. The three values separately as well as their sum are considered. The lowest possible GCS (the sum) is 3 (deep <A title="Coma" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma">coma</A> or <A title="Death" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death">death</A>), whilst the highest is 15 (fully awake person).</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/10EEC7F6-7894-4879-ABA0-766A4684FE03/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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