GCS: A Simple Tool to Use When Verbal Component Scores Are Missing (IMAGE)

Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group

GCS: A Simple Tool to Use When Verbal Component Scores Are Missing

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Visual aid to imputation of a verbal score based on the EM score. In step 1, the eye and motor component scores are summed. In step 2, the verbal component score is identified and added to the EM sum score, giving an imputed GCS sum score in step 3.

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