*Health Issues>>>Other-Diseases issues>>>

is glasgow coma scale useful in medical (non-neurosurgical) patients?

Issue
for medical patients, i. e. non surgical

Best Tip

Whislt I think it is useful in lots of cases it's not the be all and end all for a start people rarely remember what the difference between things are particulaly with the motor section people often getting 3-4 mixed up. It was designed by Teesdale et al for neurosurgical patients as a through assessment of concious level. In medical situations such in depth review is not required and in most circumstances AVPU (alert. verbal, pain unresponsive) is much quicker and equally discrimanatory

Others
Yes - it is a good way to measure the conscious level of any patient.
yes as it measures the patients level of consciousness
It measures the patients levels of consciousness
GCS is valid in all patients irrespective of the cause of loss of consciousness. The proof for this is the fact that it has been adopted by the European Resuscitation Council in its Advance Life Support Guidelines and by the American College of Surgeons in the Advanced Trauma Life Support Guidelines.