So What Is Glasgow Coma Scale...?

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The GCS (Glasgow Coma Scale) is one of the most common consciousness scoring systems used to describe the level of consciousness in a person.

Graham Michael Teasdale a neurosurgeon and William Bryan Jennett a British neurosurgeon, a faculty member at the University of Glasgow Medical School, developed the neurologic assessment tool known as the Glasgow Coma Scale. 

Basically, it is used to help gauge the severity of an acute brain injury. The test is simple, reliable, and correlates well with outcome following severe brain injury.

The GCS is a reliable and objective way of recording the initial and following level of consciousness in a person after any brain injury. It is used by trained professionals at the site of an injury like a car crash or sports injury, for example, and in the emergency department and intensive care units.

So what are the limitations of the Glasgow Coma Scale...?

Factors like drug use, alcohol intoxication, shock, or low blood oxygen can have an effect on a patient's level of consciousness. These factors could lead to an inadequate & inaccurate score on the GCS.

So how is it graded...?

Every brain injury is different, but generally, brain injury is classified as:

GCS (Glasgow Coma Scale)
BEHAVIOR	RESPONSE	SCORE
Eye opening response	Spontaneously	4
	To speech	3
	To pain	2
	No response	1
Best verbal response	Oriented to time, place, and person	5
	Confused	4
	Inappropriate words	3
	Incomprehensible sounds	2
	No response	1
Best motor response	Obeys commands	6
	Moves to localized pain	5
	Flexion withdrawal from pain	4
	Abnormal flexion (decorticate)	3
	Abnormal extension (decerebrate)	2
	No response	1

Severe: GCS 8 or less

Moderate: GCS 9-12

Mild: GCS 13-15

People who have a score of 3 are said to be in coma (who are totally unresponsive).

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