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In this lesson we talk about the Glasgow Coma Scale assessment or GCS. The GCS assessment is one of the most important assessments you can do for your patients and its very quick to perform.

We start with a quick lesson on the background of the Glasgow Coma Scale and what it is used for before we move in to talking about the actual assessment and how to score your patient as well as how those scores relate to the various levels of cognitive functioning that your patient is exhibiting.

The assessment starts talking about scoring your patients eye opening and the different points for the category. From there it goes in to the verbal response and the associated scores there. Finally we cover the motor response and how we score what we see in that category.

Finally we cover some pitfalls and problems to watch out for as well as some general guidelines to help you get the most from your GCS assessment.

Our hope is that after this lesson you will have a better understanding of this assessment and what your are looking for in your patient, as well as the importance of what you are seeing and scoring in the overall context of your patients condition!

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CORRECTION: Thank you @TessaCournoyer for catching this mistake! At 21:41 I wrote E4 after just stating it was E3. You're total score would actually be 9 not 10

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