Introduction: Accurate evaluation of the extent and severity of neurologic injury is a key component in the care of the trauma patient as traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in trauma victims. EMS assessment of the severity of such injury affects such decisions as need for transfer to a trauma center. Currently, the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is th...

Methods Twenty-four patients and three controls (21 men, 6 women, mean age 33.4 years, age range 19-54) were recruited and scanned on 3T or 7T GE Excite scanners. Five TBI patients scanned at 3T received a repeat scan 1 to 12 months after the first scan, for a total of 23 scans at 3T and 9 scans at 7T. Sixteen of the patients had mild TBI (Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 13-15), three moderate TBI (GC...

pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (pk/pd) relationships describe the quantitative relationships between the drug-induced effects and the concurrent corresponding drug concentrations in an individual. since a long time, rough qualitative relationships have been described between neurological presentation and plasma ethanol concentration in acute ethanol ingestion. however, to date, precise quantit...

Objective To verify correlations between age, injury severity, length of stay (LOS), cognition, functional capacity and quality of life (QOL) six months after hospital discharge (HD) of victims of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Method 50 patients consecutively treated in a Brazilian emergency hospital were assessed at admission, HD and six months after HD. The assessment protocol consisted in Ab...

Level of conciousness on head injury patients is one the initial assessment. Glassgow Coma Scale (GCS) methods to assess it through assessment eyes responses, verbal and motoric responses. Generally, Score GCS related outcome patients. The objective this study was identify score in emergency room at general hospital Pemerintah Aceh. This quantitative retrospective using secondary data, medical ...

OBJECTIVE Narrative review of Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) methodology. DESIGN Narrative review of published papers describing methodological aspects of the GCS, from Premedline, Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Ovid Nursing databases from 1950 to May 2012. RESULTS Examination of 18,851 references limited to descriptions of GCS development, pathophysiological correlations, examination techniques, co...

Introduction. The verbal, eye, and motor components of Glasgow coma scale (GCS) may be influenced by poisoned patients' behavior in an attempted suicide. So, the values of admission GCS and its components for outcomes prediction in mixed drugs poisoning were investigated. Materials and Methods. A followup study data was performed on patients with mixed drugs poisoning. Outcomes were recorded as...

background: hyperglycemia is frequently encountered in critically ill patients and has been shown to contribute to both morbidity and mortality. we aimed to study the predictive role of blood glucose level in clinical outcomes of mechanically ventilated patients with traumatic brain injury during intensive care unit (icu) stay and to explore its relationship with glasgow coma scale (gcs) and ac...

INTRODUCTION There are numerous prehospital descriptive scoring systems, and it is uncertain whether they are efficient in assessing of the severity of illness and whether they have a prognostic role in the estimation of the illness outcome (in comparison with that of the prognostic scoring system Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation [APACHE] II). The purpose of the present study was ...