Question

You are on scene at the local skate park for a 10-year-old male that crashed while not wearing a helmet. The patient fell off his bike while going off a jump. He landed directly on his head and has been unconscious since the accident. He does not open his eyes to verbal or painful stimuli, is making incomprehensible sounds, and has abnormal flexion to a sternal rub. What is this patient's GCS?

Answer 1

The patient's Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score can be determined based on the provided information: 1T 2F (T: Total score assigned, F: Fraction of total score assigned).

Step-by-step explanation:

The patient's Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score can be determined based on the provided information. The GCS is a tool used to assess the level of consciousness in patients with traumatic brain injuries. It evaluates three criteria: eye opening, verbal response, and motor response. Each criterion is scored on a scale from 1 to 6, with a lower score indicating a more severe impairment.

In this case, the patient does not open his eyes to verbal or painful stimuli and is making incomprehensible sounds. This corresponds to a score of 1 for the eye opening criterion. The patient also has abnormal flexion to a sternal rub, which corresponds to a score of 2 for the motor response criterion. As the verbal response criterion is not mentioned, we cannot assign a score to it.

Therefore, based on the provided information, the patient's GCS score would be 1T 2F (T: Total score assigned, F: Fraction of total score assigned).