Charlottesville, VA (April 10, 2018). The University of Glasgow's Sir Graham Teasdale, co-creator of the Glasgow Coma Scale, has teamed with Paul M. Brennan and Gordon D. Murray of the University of ...

The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is the most widely used method for evaluation of coma, but it has a number of shortcomings, including limited utility in intubated patients and an inability to assess ...

The GCS was developed by Teasdale and Jennett (1974) as a standardized method for healthcare practitioners to evaluate and describe the degree of altered consciousness or coma in patients who had ...

The identification of variables in the acute stage of head injury that could provide insight into patient outcomes is of great interest to healthcare providers and researchers. The GCS score is one ...

Scientists have created new assessment tools that build on the Glasgow Coma Scale to provide greater information on injury severity and prognosis in patients with traumatic brain injury while still ...