A PROGRAMME TO ENHANCE KNOWLEDGE ON GLASGOW COMA SCALE AMONG THE NURSES

Assessing Nurses Knowledge of Glasgow Coma Scale in Emergency and Outpatient Department

Assessment of level of consciousness using the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is a tool requiring knowledge that is important in detecting early deterioration in a patient's level of consciousness. Critical thinking used with the skill and knowledge in assessing the GCS is the foundation of all nursing practice. This study aims to explore the knowledge and competence in assessing the GCS among staff ...

Knowledge of Glasgow coma scale by air-rescue physicians

OBJECTIVE To assess the theoretical and practical knowledge of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) by trained Air-rescue physicians in Switzerland. METHODS Prospective anonymous observational study with a specially designed questionnaire. General knowledge of the GCS and its use in a clinical case were assessed. RESULTS From 130 questionnaires send out, 103 were returned (response rate of 79.2%) a...

Cheerio, laddie! Bidding farewell to the Glasgow Coma Scale.

It is time to abandon the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). As discussed below, this ubiquitous neurologic scoring system is confusing, unreliable, and unnecessarily complex, and its manner of common clinical use is statistically unsound. Teasdale and Jennett devised the GCS in 1974 not for acute care, but rather for the “repeated bedside assessment” in a neurosurgical unit to detect “changing states” ...

Head injury: from the Glasgow Coma Scale to quo vadis.

Background Work in the 1940s and 1950s revealed that the brainstem was key to consciousness. The experimental definition of the reticular activating system by Moruzzi and Magoun28 in 1949 was followed by various confirmatory clinical studies.15,38 Studies conducted during World War II and later demonstrated that rotational head injury was more effective than translational acceleration/decelerat...

The Prognostic Value of Admission Glasgow Coma Scale and AVPU in Acute Drug Poisoning Patients