Final answer:
The Glasgow Coma Score for a patient who has an unfocused gaze, mumbles, and pulls away from painful stimulus is calculated by assessing eye, verbal, and motor responses. Given that mumbling is scored as 3 and pulling away from pain is 5, with an eye response likely 3, the score adds up to 11, which was not an option provided. The closest choice given the options is b. 10, suggesting perhaps the verbal response was slightly better than mumbling.
Step-by-step explanation:
To determine the Glasgow Coma Score for a possible overdose patient who looks around with an unfocused gaze, mumbles when you ask him questions, and pulls away from painful stimulus, we should assess each component of the scale. The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) evaluates three aspects of a patient's response: eye response, verbal response, and motor response. Each aspect is given a score, and the sum of these scores gives the overall Glasgow Coma Score.
Since the patient is looking around with an unfocused gaze, we can assume that the eye response would be a score of 3 (eyes open to speech). Mumbling is considered an inappropriate verbal response, so it would likely be a score of 3 according to GCS criteria. Pulling away from painful stimulus is a localized motor response which results in a score of 5 on the motor scale. Adding these values together (3 for eyes, 3 for verbal, and 5 for motor) gives us a total Glasgow Coma Score of 11.
However, none of the choices provided in the question lists 11 as an option, so there might be a mistake in the possible answers given or in the interpretation of the patient's responses. It's important to reassess the patient's responses carefully, but based on the provided information, the closest correct answer would be b. 10, assuming the verbal response was slightly better than mumbling (confused conversation scores a 4) and adding the scores from the other two responses.