What does G C S mean in medicine?

Question

Whenn people go into casualty, the ambulance people always state a G, C .S. level, what does it stand for?

Answer 1

glasgow coma scale
it is an indication of your level of consciousness 10 being normal and the lower the number the lower your state of consciousness

Answer 2

Glasgow Coma Scale. this is a rapid way to assess the severity of a patients condition. It conveys how urgent things are for a patient when medical staff talk to each other. 15 is maximum. Motor response, verbal response and eye opening are the 3 criteria, these can be applied and and assessed in a few seconds. Interpretation of Symptoms is straight forward: Severe: less than 8; Moderate: 9-12; Mild: 13-15. It began to be used routinely from about 2000.

Answer 3

Gcs Medical Abbreviation

Answer 4

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What does G C S mean in medicine?
Whenn people go into casualty, the ambulance people always state a G, C .S. level, what does it stand for?

Answer 5

GCS stands for Glasgow Coma Scale. It is a scoring system based on a patient's eye response, verbal response and motor response that gives a way of recording their level of consciousness for initial as well as continuing assessment. It has been shown to be a reasonable predictor of eventual outcome.

Best eye response:
1pt - Eyes opening spontaneously.
2 pts - Eye opening to speech. (Not to be confused with an awaking or a sleeping person; such patients receive a score of 4, not 3.)
3 pts - Eye opening in response to pain. (Patient responds to pressure on the patient’s fingernail bed; if this does not elicit a response, supraorbital and sternal pressure or rub may be used.)
4 pts - No eye opening.

Best verbal response:
1 pt - Oriented. (Patient responds coherently and appropriately to questions such as the patient’s name and age, where they are and why, the year, month, etc.)
2 pts - Confused. (The patient responds to questions coherently but there is some disorientation and confusion.)
3 pts - Inappropriate words. (Random or exclamatory articulated speech, but no conversational exchange).
4 pts - Incomprehensible sounds. (Moaning but no words.)
5 pts - None.

Best motor response:
1 pt - Obeys commands. (The patient does simple things as asked.)
2 pts - Localizes to pain. (Purposeful movements towards changing painful stimuli; e.g. hand crosses mid-line and gets above clavicle when supra-orbital pressure applied.)
3 pts - Withdraws from pain (pulls part of body away when pinched; normal flexion).
4 pts - Flexion in response to pain (decorticate response).
5 pts - Extension to pain (decerebrate response: adduction, internal rotation of shoulder, pronation of forearm).
6 pts - No motor response.

Answer 6

GCS is Glasgow Coma Scale.
It is a neurological measure of consciousness.
15 being fully conscious.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

GCS - glascow coma scale
GCS 3 - that is d lowest score, more or less in coma....poor prognosis but they might still wake up...others do...

check under neurology section....more comprehensive explanation....