Gulf War and Health: Volume 7: Long-Term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury

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. "3 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ADULT TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY." Gulf War and Health: Volume 7: Long-Term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008.

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Gulf War and Health, Volume 7: Long-Term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury

TABLE 3.1 Glasgow Coma Scales and Glasgow Outcome Scales

Glasgow Coma Scale^a		Glasgow Coma Scale-Extended^b		Glasgow Outcome Scale		Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended^c
Ability Assessed	Points	Memory Assessed	Points	Condition	Points	Condition	Points
Eye opening		Amnesia		Dead	1	Dead	1
Not open	1	>3 mo	0	Vegetative state	2	Vegetative state	2
To pain	2	31–90 days	1	Severely disabled	3	Lower severe disabled	3
To speech	3	8–30 days	2	Moderately disabled	4	Upper severe disabled	4
Spontaneous	4	1–7 days	3	Good recovery	5	Lower moderate disabled	5
Verbal response		3–24 h	4			Upper moderate disabled	6
Silence	1	0.5–3 h	5			Lower good recovery	7
Sounds	2	<30 min	6			Upper good recovery	8
Nonsense	3	No amnesia	7
Confused	4
Motor response to pain
No response	1
Arm extension	2
Arm flexion	3
Withdrawal	4
Localizing	5
To command	6
^aSOURCE: Jennett and Teasdale, 1981. ^bSOURCE: Nell et al., 2000. ^cSOURCE: Jennett et al., 1981.