40 year old male patient sustained head injury due hit by car, brought to casuality. On examination patient is drowsy, aphasic, opening eyes on giving deep pain stimulus and throwing examiners hands while giving pain stimulus. what is his GCS..?
High-Yield Explanation
Here patient shows eye opening to painful stimulus ,, so E2 He is aphasic, means no verbal response at all, so it will be - V1 Patient throwing hands of examiner, that means withdrawl response , M4 Therefore total GCS score is 2+1+4= 7 Glasgow coma scale EYE OPENING spontaneous -4 to speech -3 to pain -2 no response -1. VERBAL RESPONSE oriented -5 confused -4 inappropriate words -3 incomprehensible sounds -2 none -1 MOTOR RESPONSE obeys commands -6 localises pain -5 withdrawal response -4 abnormal flexion -3 extension -2 no response -1