Glasgow Coma Scale in Children There are many difficulties in applying the GCS to pediatric patients, especially regarding the verbal scale, which is obviously inappropriate in very young children ...

Although this guideline includes adults, for the purposes of review, this paper will focus on children and young people. ... Stop describing the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) as one number. Ideally this ...

Correspondence to: Dr B Lindström Nordic School of Public Health, Box 12133, S-40242 Gothenburg, Sweden; bengtnhv.se Study objective: The aim of this paper is to systematically review and analyse the ...