Glasgow Coma Scale

Examples of Glasgow Coma Scale in the following topics:

• Traumatic Brain Injury

  • The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), the most commonly used system for classifying TBI severity, grades a person's level of consciousness on a scale of 3–15 based on verbal, motor, and eye-opening reactions to stimuli.
  • TBI can cause prolonged or permanent effects on consciousness, such as coma, brain death, persistent vegetative state (in which patients are unable to achieve a state of alertness to interact with their surroundings), and minimally conscious state.

• Assessing CNS Disorders

  • Muscle strength, often graded on the MRC scale 0 to 5 (i.e. 0 = Complete Paralysis to 5 = Normal Power).

• Kelvin Scale

  • The Kelvin scale is an absolute, thermodynamic temperature scale using absolute zero as its null point.
  • The choice of absolute zero as null point for the Kelvin scale is logical.
  • The Kelvin scale is named after Glasgow University engineer and physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), who wrote of the need for an "absolute thermometric scale. " Unlike the degree Fahrenheit and the degree Celsius, the kelvin is not referred to or typeset as a degree.
  • Relationships between the Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin temperature scales, rounded to the nearest degree.
  • The relative sizes of the scales are also shown

• Disorders of Acid-Base Balance

  • Neurological complications include lethargy, stupor, coma, seizures.

• Genital Warts

  • Reported reactions include nausea, vomiting, fever, confusion, coma, renal failure, ileus, and leukopenia; death has been reported with extensive topical application, or application on mucous membranes.
  • In a small-scale study, low dose oral isotretinoin showed considerable efficacy and may represent an alternative systemic form of therapy for Genital Warts.