One criticism of the GCS is that the summed score does not always provide an accurate depiction of a patient's condition. For example, the verbal score, particularly in trauma patients, may be poor ...

Charlottesville, VA (April 10, 2018). The University of Glasgow's Sir Graham Teasdale, co-creator of the Glasgow Coma Scale, has teamed with Paul M. Brennan and Gordon D. Murray of the University of ...

Compared with younger patients with similar traumatic brain injury severity, elderly patients with traumatic brain injuries were shown to have better Glasgow Coma Scale scores, according to ...

Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of death and disabilities in children older than 1 year of age. 1 Detailed data about head trauma in children are needed to better understand the rates and ...

The GCS was developed by Teasdale and Jennett (1974) as a standardized method for healthcare practitioners to evaluate and describe the degree of altered consciousness or coma in patients who had ...

Scientists have created new assessment tools that build on the Glasgow Coma Scale to provide greater information on injury severity and prognosis in patients with traumatic brain injury while still ...