It is a scale designed and used neurologically to measure the level of consciousness of a person who may have suffered a multiple brain injury. Discovered by Bryan Jennett and Graham Teasdale in 1974. According to studies carried out by experts, the assessment ranges from three to fifteen points, with three being the lowest score that can be obtained and fifteen the highest score. The score would depend on three studies carried out which will be carried out during the 24 hours following the event.
Describing the studies to be carried out we have:
Ocular Opening Ability: The patient will be evaluated according to his ability to open his eyes, if his opening is spontaneous his score will be 4, if his opening is to order, that means when hearing a phrase or an instruction his score is three, if Its opening is due to inducing pain on specific muscles, its score will be 2, and if its opening is null the score will be 1.
Verbal Ability: It is the ability of the patient to answer some questions and thus evaluate his orientation if he knows who is where he is and because he is there, it is said that his answer is oriented and his score will be five, if he responds to a normal conversation but those Answers are not located in time or space, it will be called confusing and its score will be four, if it is not possible to hold a conversation in line with the patient and he becomes confused and screams, it is said that it is incoherent, his score will be three, if the patient makes sounds incomprehensible and complaining his score will be only two, and finally if the patient lacks verbal response he will simply get a one.
Motor Capacity: it is the ability of the patient to move some parts of his body receiving specific orders if the patient receives orders and executes them fully and in due time his score will be 6, if his response to a movement is induced by a pain stimulus and Fully intentional, his score will be five, if instead the patient's response to the stimulus performed is an attempt to spontaneously withdraw his score will only be four, if the patient arches his hands and presents pain at the level of the thorax when applying the stimulus, his score will be out of three, the score will be two if the patient presents an extension of the upper and lower extremities and rotation of the forearm, and finally his score will be one ifthere is no motor response.
Apart from this scale, which is for adults or conscious people, there are other variations of the Glasgow scale for children and infants who have no conscience to demonstrate pain or motor response.
