This document discusses the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), a tool used to assess a person's level of consciousness after head trauma or during certain medical conditions. The GCS evaluates eye opening, verbal response, and motor response on a scale of 3-15, with lower scores indicating more severe brain injury. Scores are interpreted as severe (GCS ≤ 8), moderate (GCS 9-12), or minor (GCS ≥ 13). The GCS provides important baseline information to monitor patients with conditions that can affect consciousness like hypoxia, hypoglycemia, head trauma, neurological diseases, or after anesthesia.

2. REKHA RAJU
2ND YR M.Sc NURSING

3. INDICATION
• Hypoxia
• Metabolic imbalances such as hypoglycaemia
• Falls and trauma to head
• Unresponsiveness
• Neurological disease processes Eg. stroke,
brain tumor,& epilepsy
• Post-anaesthesia
• New admission to form a baseline assessment.

4. Glasgow coma scale

5. EYE OPENING

6. VERBAL RESPONSE

7. MOTOR RESPONSE

8. INTERPRETATION
• Severe, with GCS ≤ 8
• Moderate, GCS 9 - 12
• Minor, GCS ≥ 13.