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Acute Care 30: Glasgow Coma Scale-Adult, Pediatric, Infant: Eye Opening

The document describes the Glasgow Coma Scale for assessing level of consciousness in acute care settings for infants, pediatrics, and adults. It lists the criteria for eye opening, verbal response, and motor response components of the scale, with scoring ranging from 1 to 5 for each component and a total score from 3 to 15.
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Acute Care 30: Glasgow Coma Scale-Adult, Pediatric, Infant: Eye Opening

The document describes the Glasgow Coma Scale for assessing level of consciousness in acute care settings for infants, pediatrics, and adults. It lists the criteria for eye opening, verbal response, and motor response components of the scale, with scoring ranging from 1 to 5 for each component and a total score from 3 to 15.
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Acute Care 30: Glasgow Coma Scale—Adult,

Pediatric, Infant
Eye Opening

Infant (<1 Pediatric (>1 Adult


year) year)

Spontaneous Spontaneous Spontaneous 4

Voice Voice Voice 3

Pain Pain Pain 2

None None None 1

Verbal Response

Infant (<2 Pediatric (>2 Adult


years) years)

Coos, Appropriate word/ Oriented 5


babbles phrase

Irritable but Disoriented/ Confused 4


consolable converses

Persistent Inappropriate Inappropriate 3


cries/ word
screams

Moans/grunts Incomprehensible Incomprehensible 2


to sounds
pain; restless

None None None 1

Motor Response

Infant (<1 year) Pediatric (>1 year) Adult

Spontaneous Obeys Obeys 6

Localizes pain Localizes pain Localizes 5


pain

Flexion-withdrawal Flexion-withdrawal Withdraws 4


Flexion/decorticate Flexion/decorticate Abnormal 3
flexion
(decorticate)

Extension/decerebrate Extension/decerebrate Abnormal 2


extension
(decerebrate)

None None None 1

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3 to 15

Edition 13-October 2011

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