GCS - Glasgow Coma Scale according to Wikipedia


	GCS - Glasgow Coma Scale according to Wikipedia

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5-9-2008 1:44 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/3d26ffc4-0697-4fe2-9afb-dcbe5c7903f2/E4FC74AF-2516-4199-8C2C-1E846B996B68/" 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 <B>Glasgow Coma Scale</B> or <B>GCS</B>, sometimes also known as the <B>Glasgow Coma Score</B> is a <A title="Neurology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurology" linkindex="5">neurological</A> <A title="Scale (ratio)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_%28ratio%29" linkindex="6">scale</A> which aims to give a reliable, objective way of recording the conscious state of a person, for initial as well as continuing assessment. A patient is assessed against the criteria of the scale, and the resulting points give a patient score between 3 (indicating deep unconsciousness) and either 14 (original scale) or 15 (the more widely used modified or revised scale).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></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>GCS was initially used to assess level of consciousness after <A title="Head injury" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_injury" linkindex="7" set="yes">head injury</A>, and the scale is now used by <A title="First aid" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_aid" linkindex="8">first aid</A>, <A title="Emergency medical services" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medical_services" linkindex="9">EMS</A> and <A title="Physician" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician" linkindex="10">doctors</A> as being applicable to all acute medical and trauma patients. In hospital it is also used in chronic patient monitoring, in for instance, <A title="Intensive care" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_care" linkindex="11">intensive care</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></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">The scale was published in 1974 by Graham Teasdale and <A title="Bryan J. Jennett" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_J._Jennett" linkindex="12" set="yes">Bryan J. Jennett</A>, professors of neurosurgery at the <A title="University of Glasgow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" linkindex="13">University of Glasgow</A>. The pair went on to author the textbook <I>Management of Head Injuries</I> (FA Davis <A title="1981" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981" linkindex="14" set="yes">1981</A>, <A class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0803650191" linkindex="15" set="yes">ISBN 0-8036-5019-1</A>)</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/E4FC74AF-2516-4199-8C2C-1E846B996B68/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.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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