Citation

Rabiu TB. Indian J. Crit. Care Med. 2011; 15(1): 58-59.

Affiliation

Department of Neurological Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, Publisher Medknow Publications)

DOI

10.4103/0972-5229.78231

PMID

21633551

PMCID

PMC3097547

Abstract

The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), introduced by Teasdale and Jenneth in 1974, has received tremendous acclaim from clinicians and has been extensively used in clinical practice for the evaluation of the level of consciousness. The author notes that some traumatic brain injury patients close eyes in response to painful stimuli as opposed to the eye opening response to pain of the GCS. A revision of the eye opening response subsection of the GCS is suggested.

Language: en