Glasgow Coma Scale made easy
A quick, easy guide to the Glasgow Coma Scale and how to do it!
This video is for anyone with an interest in neurosurgery but primarily aimed at medical students, nurses and junior doctors.
Many thanks to Cialo, Gary, Rachel Crisp and Rachel Gill from the Education Academy at The Royal London Hospital where this was filmed.
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Videography by Alex Alamri and Brandon Smith
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So how do you test a patient who is intubated, has swollen eyes and is paralyzed?
You are not only educating the medical fraternity, but it also is a great piece of information for non-medical individuals. I enjoyed it thoroughly and helps me to understand what happens in the EM department here on. Thank you so much for your video!
Very useful and simple to understand thank you
love it
Thank you…really appreciate the NT part, I think we usually give 1 in many situations that we should have assessed as NT….quite an educative video.
I was in a long coma, lasting several years, due to a rare fungal infection of the brain, specifically, Candida Dubliniensis. I wasn’t immunocompromised when this happened, which saved my life.
My surgeon did extensive surgery to remove the Candida, to repair hemorrhages and multiple vp shunt revision. I’ve tried to read up on what’s happened to me, but not a lot of information about this, my surgeon said mine may be an unique case, for more than one reasons. I tested low to very low on the Glasgow coma scale, until about 2 years ago, I’m still in cognitive therapy. I have tried to read about what’s happened to me, including my low GCS scale, but I haven’t really understood it until now. Thank you so much for explaining.
Thank you, it is very helpful!
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my girl’s GCS when i sleep with her 7
eyes open only if i was too deep 2
verbal only "emmm emmme emmmm ahhh ahhh ahhh" 2
hands flexing to her chest 3
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What about a paralyzed man, who’s intubated, and recovering from a particularly horrendous wasp attack? That’s just NT across the board.
Half of his words r not understanding bcoz of his accent but its ok,👍
1 😂
i remember waking up in the ICU, i was in a coma for 4 days. it’s pretty interesting info thank you.
thank you so much. it helped immensily
I had a cardiac arrest in january and had a GCS of 5 when paramedics got to me.. It really is amazing what they can do with someone whos in such a bad way.
Very useful! Thank u very much!
THANK YOUUU
Thank you
it was very informative as I have photographic memory
Why is elbow extension a bad sign?
Really well done, nicely explained, and nicely demonstrated GCS evaluation. Congrats! The British accent was a really good touch as well….you sound so damn smart
Unless you know the patients name then asking their name isn’t the best question you could ask. I’d suggest asking them where they are and why, and season and year
I used to confused this scale hmmm , now I can attempt any questions on this
i just had neurology practical earlier today, how is this on my yt recommendation? sksks are they spying on me :))
Great 👍
omg amazing. thank you so much!
Excellent presentation 👏
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The grading though…. For example, abnormal flexion is graded what?
I am so happy to have found your channel. Thank you very much for this useful video.
I scored 4 once
Thanks a ton
This is quite an amazing video. It is very helpful.
so what ıs my score?
Very helpful demonstration .. you could cover how to assign scores accordingly too..that’d make this a complete and THE BEST video on GCS on YouTube 🙂
thank you. before i didn’t know well how to assess motor response but now. I got it
Hi, my daughter has severe learning difficulties, CVI, non-verbal and unusual responses to pain. Does this render the GCS as worthless? How would you recognise her issues without someone who knows her well being present?
Really could have improved this video by doing it in a systematic fashion. For example: Eyes: talk through different ranges of score from least severe to most severe (4 –> 1) and then have filmed examples of each. Instead you’re just kinda dotting in and out of each section, without really emphasising the most important aspect, which is accurately relaying what you’ve assessed and communicating that as a numerical score.
Appreciate the effort, but not really good study material for medics.
Hello, Can you please explain the difference on examination / clinically the between normal flexion and abnormal flexion again? Thank you.
I have been trying to by heart this from long time, you just made this easy for me.
Can I ask a question?
If first responders are allowed to use GCS?
Thank you 😊
what is consciousness?
Tnx…really helpful
SO WHERE IS YOUR EXPLANATION ABOUT WITHDRAWS TO PAIN UNDER MOTOR? Tsk tsk tsk
I want to know what the numbers when do you give a 14 or a zero etc
Awesome job, just missing the scoring part and stagings for deficits. If possible, please include them in this video. thanks
Excellent, many thanks.
Dude you’re not saying the score for each component. Worthless
Thanks… Very nice video
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