Emergency Medicine/Coma

A coma is profound state of unconsciousness. To determine if someone is in a coma it is recommended to use the glasgow coma scale.

Glasgow coma scale
The glascaw coma score is in a scale of three to fifteen, three being the worst.

Eye response

 * 4- Eyes open spontaneously
 * 3- Eyes open after verbal command
 * 2- Open when in pain
 * 1- No response

Verbal response

 * 5- Oriented (responds properly)
 * 4- Disoriented
 * 3- Inappropriate response
 * 2- Unintelligible sounds
 * 1- No response

Motor response

 * 6- Obeys to verbal command correctly
 * 5- Localizes to pain
 * 4- Withdrawal to pain
 * 3- Can flex to pain
 * 2- Extend to pain
 * 1- No response