An initial Glasgow Coma Scale score of 8 or less does not define severe brain injury

M Fitzgerald, T Tan, JV Rosenfeld… - Emergency Medicine …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… in global guidelines that continue to grapple with the very real issues of ‘best practice’ and
‘… severe non-penetrating traumatic head injury. Severe head injury was defined as a GCS of …

Diagnosing level of consciousness: the limits of the glasgow coma scale total score

YG Bodien, A Barra, NR Temkin, J Barber… - Journal of …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
… contexts, the initial severity of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) is measured using the Glasgow
… We identified the 120 possible GCS subscale score combinations (4 eye-opening × 5 verbal …

A prognostic model for predicting one-month outcomes among emergency department patients with mild traumatic brain injury and a presenting Glasgow Coma Scale …

H Falk, KT Bechtold, ME Peters, D Roy, V Rao… - Journal of …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
outcome measure was the Glasgow Outcome Scale Extended (GOSE) at 1-month and
incomplete recovery was defined … care is needed based upon very limited information. To make …

Definition and epidemiology of mild traumatic brain injury

C Lefevre-Dognin, M Cogné, V Perdrieau, A Granger… - Neurochirurgie, 2021 - Elsevier
… Collaboration on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Prognosis”) … used are Glasgow Coma Scale
(GCS) score, duration of loss … , ranging from patients with very brief minor symptoms to patients …

Admission Glasgow Coma Scale score as a predictor of outcome in patients without traumatic brain injury

A Li, FD Atem, AM Venkatachalam, A Barnes… - American Journal of …, 2021 - AACN
… The findings of this study indicate that the GCS does not predict patient outcome as defined
by the mRS at hospital discharge in patients with a non-TBI neurologic diagnosis. With the …

Traumatic brain injury in the elderly with high Glasgow coma scale and low injury severity scores: Factors influencing outcomes

H Bick, T Wasfie, V Labond, JR Hella, E Pearson… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
… patients presenting to the ED with minor trauma and high … older as a cutoff to define elderly
patients as mean age in our … making management extremely difficult and outcome uncertain […

A child presenting with a Glasgow coma scale score of 13: mild or moderate traumatic brain injury? A narrative review

G Hageman, J Nihom - Neuropediatrics, 2021 - thieme-connect.com
trauma mechanism by definition. In children with GCS 15, the … is a very low risk of clinically
important brain injuries; brain CT … Management of children with mild traumatic brain injury and …

Gender differences in adult traumatic brain injury according to the Glasgow coma scale: A multicenter descriptive study

E Ki Seong, K Jang Hun, Y Sang Hoon… - Chinese journal of …, 2021 - mednexus.org
… it is a very heterogeneous injury and many outcome variables … traumatic brain injury
compared to mild traumatic brain injury… In this study, the mean age in the mild TBI group was 6.5 …

Assessing the severity of traumatic brain injury—time for a change?

O Tenovuo, R Diaz-Arrastia, LE Goldstein… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
… assessed with the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), … given both for the patients, proxies, and
medical professionals. Instead of current labels—mild, complicated mild, moderate, severe, very

The reliability of the Glasgow Coma Scale in detecting traumatic brain injury: The continuous effect of age

M Rozenfeld, A Givon, I Trauma Group, K Peleg - Brain injury, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… While pointing to a very important issue regarding the limited reliability of GCS for triage of …
Among those patients, 30,696 had TBI, defined as AIS diagnosis of internal brain injury. Out of …