ACUTE METHANOL POISENING: PROGNOSTIC FACTORS AND ROLE OF GLASGOW COMA SCALE

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

The prognostic value of the components of the Glasgow Coma Scale following acute stroke.

BACKGROUND The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is widely used in assessing level of consciousness. The GCS verbal component may be misleading in acute stroke: a focal neurological deficit leading to dysphasia could affect the score, independently of level of consciousness. AIM To investigate the relationship, in all strokes and in dysphasic patients, between stroke outcome and total GCS (with and wi...

Lack of prognostic role for Glasgow coma scale, serum acetylcholinesterase and leukocyte levels in acute organophosphorus Toxicological ICU poisoned patients

Self-poisoning with organophosphorus (OPs) pesticide is a serious clinical problem across Asian countries. The aim of the present study was to assess the value of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), serum acetylcholinesterase (SChE) and leukocyte on the length of stay and mortality due to OP poisoning as a prognostic value. We studied acutely OP-poisoned patients who had been admitted to the toxicolo...

Validation of a prognostic subarachnoid hemorrhage grading scale derived directly from the Glasgow Coma Scale.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A new Glasgow Coma Scale-based scale has been developed to predict patient outcome in subarachnoid hemorrhage by calculating cut-off points by which 2 consecutive categories corresponded to a statistically significant different outcome. We assessed the external validity of this Prognosis on Admission of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (PAASH) scale and compared it to t...

Glasgow Coma Scale Scoring is Often Inaccurate.

INTRODUCTION The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is widely applied in the emergency setting; it is used to guide trauma triage and for the application of essential interventions such as endotracheal intubation. However, inter-rater reliability of GCS scoring has been shown to be low for inexperienced users, especially for the motor component. Concerns regarding the accuracy and validity of GCS scoring...