Scientists have created new assessment tools that build on the Glasgow Coma Scale to provide greater information on injury severity and prognosis in patients with traumatic brain injury while still ...

Reliable assessment of comatose patients in intensive care units is critical to the patients' care. Providers must recognize clinical status changes quickly to undertake proper interventions. But does ...

How would you score the Glasgow coma scale in a postop patient who is admitted to the ICU sedated and paralyzed? The Glasgow Coma Scale is a widely used standardized test that evaluates the degree of ...

A team of neurologists led by UCSF scientists has developed a new scale for assessing damage caused by brain trauma that could overhaul the field of concussion medicine and help doctors better treat ...

In 1974, Bryan Jennett and Graham Teasdale first developed the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) to evaluate coma and level of consciousness based on eye, motor, and verbal responses, with total scores ranging ...

Charlottesville, VA (September 8, 2020). The University of Glasgow's Sir Graham Teasdale, co-creator of the Glasgow Coma Scale, once again has teamed with Paul M. Brennan and Gordon D. Murray of the ...

Charlottesville, VA (April 10, 2018). The University of Glasgow's Sir Graham Teasdale, co-creator of the Glasgow Coma Scale, has teamed with Paul M. Brennan and Gordon D. Murray of the University of ...