Comparison of the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness and Glasgow Liege Scale/Glasgow Coma Scale in an Intensive Care Unit Population
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Comparison of the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness and Glasgow Liege Scale/Glasgow Coma Scale in an intensive care unit population.
BACKGROUND The Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) has been proposed as an alternative for the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)/Glasgow Liège Scale (GLS) in the evaluation of consciousness in severely brain-damaged patients. We compared the FOUR and GLS/GCS in intensive care unit patients who were admitted in a comatose state. METHODS FOUR and GLS evaluations were performed in randomized order in...
متن کاملA Comparison Between the Effectiveness of Full Outline of Unresponsiveness and Glasgow Coma Score at Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patients.
known worldwide and commonly used to predict the level of, consciousness, mortality and morbidity (4,9,10,13). Even though GCS is the first thing that comes to mind in the whole world, contradiction between observers, inability to evaluate verbal response on intubated, sedated and delirium patients, and absence of brainstem reflexes in the scale are the subjects which are criticized in the lite...
متن کاملFull Outline of Unresponsiveness score and the Glasgow Coma Scale in prediction of pediatric coma.
BACKGROUND This study was done to compare the admission Full Outline of Unresponsiveness (FOUR) score and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) as predictors of outcome in children with impaired consciousness. METHODS In this observational study, children (5-12 years) with impaired consciousness of <7 days were included. Children with traumatic brain injury, on sedatives or neuromuscular blockade; with pr...
متن کاملComparison between the Ability of Glasgow Coma Scale and Full Outline of Unresponsiveness Score to Predict the Mortality and Discharge Rate of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients
OBJECTIVE Prediction of survival and mortality rates in costly environments such as the intensive care unit (ICU) is of great importance for the assessment of new treatments, resource consumption control, and improvement of quality control. This study aimed to determine the ability to predict mortality and discharge rate of patients using the FOUR score in the pediatric ICU (PICU) of Ali Ibn Ab...
متن کاملStandardization of Full Outline of Unresponsiveness Scale to Assess the Level of Consciousness of the Patients Hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit in Iran
Background and Objectives: The Full Outline of Un-Responsiveness (FOUR) scale is a tool to assess the consciousness level in patients admitted to the Intensive Care Units (ICU). The validity and reliability of this scale can be affected by distorting factors, such as social, cultural, biological, and physiological conditions. This study aimed to evaluate the standardization of the FOUR scale to...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurocritical Care
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1541-6933,1556-0961
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-011-9547-2