{"id":17,"date":"2006-01-25T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.onegoodcookie.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2013-01-26T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T16:27:30","slug":"january-25-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/2006\/01\/january-25-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glasgow Score in Head Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"
Head trauma is unfortunately very common in the United States and is a leading cause of death in the young adult age group. Diagnosing the severity of a head injury is an inexact science but one common scoring system used widely is called the Glasgow Coma Scale.<\/p>\n
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Patients are assigned points in three categories: eye opening (1-4); best verbal response (1-5); and best motor response (1-6). The lowest score is 3 which is a coma and the highest score is 15 which is minimal injury. The category that surgeons look at most closely is the best motor response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Head trauma is unfortunately very common in the United States and is a leading cause of death in the young adult age group. Diagnosing the severity of a head injury is an inexact science but one common scoring system used widely is called the Glasgow Coma Scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2441,2440,2439,2438,2437],"yoast_head":"\n