Improving Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) Competency of Nurses in One Acute Stroke Unit - A Nursing Initiative Project

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

Practical use of the Glasgow Coma Scale; a comprehensive narrative review of GCS methodology.

OBJECTIVE Narrative review of Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) methodology. DESIGN Narrative review of published papers describing methodological aspects of the GCS, from Premedline, Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Ovid Nursing databases from 1950 to May 2012. RESULTS Examination of 18,851 references limited to descriptions of GCS development, pathophysiological correlations, examination techniques, co...

Acid Base Electrolyte Imbalance and Survival Outcome of Low Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) patients in the Medical Intensive Care Unit

Background: Acid-base and electrolytes disorders are commonly seen in critically ill patients. Electrolyte abnormalities were the most frequent extra cranial occurrence of altered consciousness. There are multiple studies which reported altered survival outcome in low GCS patient and some did not. Aims: To assess the survival outcome of acid-base electrolyte imbalance associated with low GCS pa...

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...

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...