Glasgow Coma Scale made easy 

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I am a new graduate nurse here in the philippines and this is so well explained. I think i can now assess gcs well and with confidence. Thank you, Doc!

At the start of 2019 I had a seizure and I'm just now realizing that the doctor was testing me on this. Really mindblowing. Subscribed!

Thank you so much Doctor for making GCS so easy and simple to learn.

Fantastic.. No fluff, straight to the point. Bloody perfect 👌

You are not only educating the medical fraternity, but it also is a great piece of information for non-medical individuals. I enjoyed it thoroughly and helps me to understand what happens in the EM department here on. Thank you so much for your video!

What a fantastic, to the point video. Thank you so much, Doctor. I will visit regularly.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Great for medical and nursing students to learn or recap. Ingnore the negative comments as they actually mean nothing. Your doing a great service.

Thank you very much for the clarification on motor response I always have struggled with the distinction! Great Video!

Thank you! This helped me in both Nurse Assessment and Pathophysiology!

Going through FF/Paramedic and this is much of a help! Thank you!

I always used to get confused with the terms decorticate and decerebrate. Her motor actions were very helpful to understand. Thanks 😊

Hey! I'm a senior in high school right now and I find your videos super inspiring! Neurosurgery has always been a dream of mine and watching your videos always makes me super excite to learn more! thank you!!

Thank you so much for this video! As a Lifeguard, I am supposed to understand the Glasgow Coma Scale to a basic level, and this really helped.

Thank you...really appreciate the NT part, I think we usually give 1 in many situations that we should have assessed as NT....quite an educative video.

Great video - just a thought, it might be helpful to include a summary slide at the end of what the options are for each test (verbal, eyes and motor)

As a GP I still can't manage to get it accurately. you can memorize the table but in actual cases it can be confusing and it's embarrassing to ask your senior something you're expected to already know. Thanks for the help.

Simple demonstration, thanks doc!

this was so useful and well explained! thank you!

I must say, this one is excellent... I need to work with dysphagia and this definitely helped me alot.. thank you very much sir..

Thanks, I was here as an EMT student a few years ago, and I wanted to kind of refresh on it

Well done you explained it in a very simple way easy to understand

Thank you so much doctor. This was so helpful. I'm just about to graduate med school and this was so helpful for my residency. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this and everything you’re doing for us!! Such a great video and channel!! 😊 I wish everyone who’s reading this the best and that also goes for this channels owner. Take care and be safe. Be kind to each other and our animals. Love from Sweden 🇸🇪🌟✨

I am so happy to have found your channel. Thank you very much for this useful video.

Thank you so much for this explanation. It is the basis for determining LOC!!!! YAAAYYY🥰🥰

this was absolutely brilliant- short , simple and sweet :D

great point about the non-peripheral testing for motor and causing pain more centrally.

This holds huge interest for me. In 2002 a RTA (m/cyc v car) was a bad day at the office. My GCS was 11 at the scene, 8 in the air ambulance and 3 shortly after admission. Multiple injuries aplenty but thanks to the professionals around me I survived. Life changing but could have been so much worse. It left me with a tbi, diplopia, back, chest & hip injuries but thank goodness for people like you. I will be forever grateful. Thank you for this channel, it’s great.

Thanks a lot! I'm going into my final year and that was really useful :)

My mom had an accident recently. It was brain clot and went to GCS.. Her score was 9/15. I was so worried but after two months she was back to her normal life her. So whoever out there suffering and worried about their loved one.. Just keep hope and be positive.. It's all gonna be fine... 💓

This video was a lifesaver for my Neuro exam in nursing school, thanks a mill!

I like watching your presentation. You have a very clear and convincing voice sir. Thank you

that was the best explanation I have ever seen. Thank you so much!

this was the best video on Glasgow Coma Scale

Such a good video and a great teacher, thank you!

Whoaa thnku somuch I got wht I've searched, this is a simple explaination I've ever find..

Very helpful demonstration .. you could cover how to assign scores accordingly too..that'd make this a complete and THE BEST video on GCS on RU-vid :)

I have been trying to by heart this from long time, you just made this easy for me.

thank you so much.. that was really useful.. this will help me in my internship

I am a Year3 student nurse, and going on to placement tomorrow - in ITU! Thank you for this video. You did make it really easy to understand.

Always a nice refresher for EMS. Thanks, Doc.

As a CFR, this is really good learning material. Thanks.

Thanks a lot for the video.. I found the motor component explanation great ! especially when explaining the difference between (withdrawal)/normal flexion and abnormal flexion !

I'm watching this to prep for being a motorcyclist. I want to be able to help first responders as best as possible, and be able to help any of my friends who get in accidents by helping inform those first responders.

Very useful and simple to understand thank you

Thanks for posting ! Helped me a lot !

Thank you so much doctor your explanation was absolutely phenomenal 😊😊😊

Until now, I've had trouble with the scale... You couldn't have explained any better!! 👍

We need your every support❤ Having a gorgeous sons in a comatose, and not knowing the consequences, the outcome and all the things, he hasn’t tried or even thought off! For now such a short, only 18 years old, life!! He needs more! Such a great man and a wonderful person and he is a very special young man to all of us surrounding him♥️🙏♥️ ♥️♥️♾️♥️♥️ ♥️♥️🙏♥️♥️🙏♥️♥️♾️♥️♥️

Wonderful sir thank you I had confusion since my mbbs times thank you 🙏

This is quite an amazing video. It is very helpful.

Very good explaination and demonstration.

i remember waking up in the ICU, i was in a coma for 4 days. it's pretty interesting info thank you.

thank you. before i didn't know well how to assess motor response but now. I got it

Thank you for this video, surprisingly I memorized everything when the video ended.

Im writing an essay on the Glasgow coma scale and this helped a lot!!

Thank you for your education.

Thank you for this very concise and helpful video explaining the Glasgow Coma Scale(GCS) . After almost dying April 15, 2022 in Ontario Canada from a freak accident due to a massive storm flinging a brick from a second story via 120km winds into my skull and brain, I now have a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). I was looking for a video from a health care professional to explain to my husband and son, laypeople, the Glasgow Coma Scale that the Trauma team would have needed to use to asses my injuries in Trauma. I believe my total GCS score was 3 or 4 , and that all medical staff unfortunately incorrectly expected me to die. Respectfully I implore all Trauma Physicians, Nurses, and medical staff to never give up on their patients, and appropriately refer your patients to the necessary Specialists, because I was not. In layman's terms I was intubated for 10 days with multi pal skull fractures, external and internal, a large internal hole to my brain along the internal fracture, a brain bleed, brain and spinal fluid leak (CSF), a fractured ankle, and already had a rare Platelet Function Disorder, that caused delayed bleeding with any injury I have had. Due to my genetics ( I was born with red hair, hence I have a very high pain tolerance and cope well with shock, I'm medical trained, and I'm military training) I knew even though I was going to be considered an older patient, I must stay focused and keep trying to stay conscious, and then immediately insists on being ambulatory ( exercising my whole body and walking as soon as possible no matter the pain), and work hard every day desensitization to all stimulation (light, noise) that was extremely painful. My family and I were incorrectly told from the first hospital I was sent to, that my prognosis was death or full paralysis. This was traumatic to my husband and son, as a Resident went worse case scenario, I humoured this incorrect and not fully educated medical student, and then told the Nurse Practitioner she was no longer allowed in my room, and demanded once again a nessecary Neurosurgeon. A week after regaining consciousness, I was livid before I was able to speak due to my fully understanding I was not receiving the necessary legally required health care in this small hospital. My husband 67, and our grown 22 year old son felt before I was transferred to ICU for 10 days due to the scale being very low, at 3 or 4, I was left to die. They were forced to leave Trauma, to leave me alone, and go home. After becoming conscious, once able to speak after being extubated, medical facts were stated by me. I self transferred via my husband and son driving me to a much larger, better hospital in the Ottawa capital of Canada.New teams of highly qualified Specialists I was illegally denied at the first hospital ( Neurology, Neurosurgeon, Neuro Ophthalmology, Orthopaedic Surgeon, and my Hematologist) have been fully reassessing me. After 10 days of being intubated( life support as a 53 year old female) I was fully able breath, was able to hear in one ear, see in one eye, and start to eat. I have relearned how to read, write, type, and as an Interior Exterior Designer and Restorer I have drafted a commercial project for my Engineer and his team for our current building we purchased just before this accident. I choose to focus working extremely hard with my Occupational Therapist, and Physio Therapist. I was out of the wheel chair the first week home, used a walker for many many months, and now almost a year later I can walk with a cane. Naturally I have difficult days and good days and as a family we laugh as I'm now our local barometer! Lol. I have speech delays, and balance issues, and live with a constant headache on my very good days, and pain management is variable. My goal is to continue with all therapy until I regain normal levels of daily living, I'm able to work again, walk unassisted, regain my balance, can once again be allowed to drive, and become fully independent. I'm grateful to the many health care professionals who treated me fully, kept me alive, and are helping me help myself on my progress to fully heal. I'm extremely grateful to my husband, my son and two neighbours who held my skull together with massive amounts of pressure, and the first responders who kept me alive and transported me to the nearest hospital with a Trauma. I'm not dead and buried so I choose to encourage medical staff to know they can make massive differences for their patients prognosis and overall outcomes . I'm very grateful to my late grandparents a Physicians, and Nurse who ingraned in me to never give up no matter what, and smile and keep people guessing too. Thank you

Always look forward to when you upload

After this I am going to watch a video on how to land an airplane and after that, how to launch a rocket to the moon. My life is complete

Amazing video! Thank you

Thank you so much. Deeply Appreciated !

This was explained so easily thankyou so much!

Thank you sir , this is so helpful

Thank you, I love this video, It was well explained.

Thank you soooo much! This was really helpful

That is so cool. You made my assessment easy. Thank u Doctor.

Well explained doc!

Bloody fantastic thank you sir 🙏

Thanks doc! I'm good to go (although I'm actually a plumber)

Best illustrated thanks doctor

Really well done, nicely explained, and nicely demonstrated GCS evaluation. Congrats! The British accent was a really good touch as well....you sound so damn smart

We have been reading and doing the GCS How to illicit each part properly is enjoyable. But should be telling the relevant score each item may be Good

Great ! a nice information to all healthcare staff.

I’m a final year dental student and this has been really helpful for me( traumatic injuries of the face and jaws), a tough lecture by the way😂 Thank you so much ❤️

Thank you :) perfect for studying for nursing school

Thank you, very clear!

Thanks a lot I always wondered what's the difference between normal and abnormal flexion now I got it 👍🏽 👌🏽 😀

Thankyou for explaining this really well.

Thank you, it is very helpful!

Very helpful. Thanks!

Thank you for this video u made this very easy to understand

Verrrry interesting. Thank you

It was very interesting, thanks a lot 🙌🏻❤

Thank you very much!!! so useful and easy!!

Excellent, many thanks.

thank you for the video.. easy to understand

Why am I watching this I ain’t no neurologist

Wow ,this is so good.thank you👍

thank you so much , you really made it easy

wonderful explanation

Very useful and informative. As a Clinical Coder, this goes a long way in understanding what I code.

The best video on gcs so far..

Thank you so much for this.

I loved the video. Thanks.

Yr 1 nursing student, thank you for the video! Will help with placement tomorrow :D

Excellent presentation 👏

thanks! will use this for my OSCE tom!

very informative! thank you!