Glasgow coma scale

Question 1

Best Eye response (E)

• 4
• 3
• 2
• 1

Answer 1

• 4 - Eyes opening spontaneously
• 3 - Eyes opening to speech
• 2 - Eyes opening to pain
• 1 - No eye opening

Question 2

Best Verbal Response (V)

• 5
• 4
• 3
• 2
• 1

Answer 2

• 5 - Oriented (paitent responds coherently and approprately to questions such as the patient’s name and age, where they are and why, the year, month, etc)
• 4 - Confused (pateitn responds to questions coherently but there is som disorientation and confusion)
• 3 - Inappropriate workd (random or exclamatory speech, but not conversational exchange)
• 2 - Incomprehensible sounds (moaning but no words)
• 1 - None

Question 3

Best motor response (M)

• 6
• 5
• 4
• 3
• 2
• 1

Answer 3

• 6 - Obeys commands
• 5 - Localizes to pain (purposeful movements towards changing painful stimuli)
• 4 - Withdraws from pain
• 3 - Decorticate posturing accentuated by pain ( flexion in response to pain)
• 2 - Decerebrate posturing accentuated by pain (exentsion
• 1 - No motor response