- 4: Opened spontaneously
- 3: Opened to speech
- 2: Opened to pain
- 1: No response
- 5: Orientated to time, place, and person
- 4: Disorientated
- 3: Inappropriate words
- 2: Incomprehensible words
- 1: No response
- 6: Obeys commands
- 5: Moves to localize pain
- 4: Flexion and withdrawal from pain
- 3: Abnormal flexion (decorticate)
- 2: Abnormal extension (decerebrate)
- 1: No response
Minimum sore: 3
Total score: 15
Notes
- Consider intubation if GCS ≤8
- How can a HO easily remember GCS?
- Take care of patients in acute cubicle, where you would need to assess GCS almost every day 😀