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Oriented (patient responds coherently and appropriately to questions such as the patient’s name and age, where they are and why, the year, month).Confused (the patient responds to questions coherently but there is some disorientation and confusion).Inappropriate words (random or exclamatory articulated speech, but no conversational exchange).Incomprehensible sounds (moaning but no words).Eye opening to speech (not to be confused with the awakening of a sleeping person such patients receive a score of 4, not 3).
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Eye opening in response to pain stimulus (a peripheral pain stimulus, such as squeezing the lunula area of the patient’s fingernail is more effective than a central stimulus such as a trapezius squeeze, due to a grimacing effect).It is now usually scored out of 15 and is comprised of 3 categories, best eye response, best vocal response and best motor response (e.g.
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Teasdale and Jennet invented the GCS in 1974.The GCS is a neurological scoring system used to assess conscious level after head injury.