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LOC
levels of Consciousness
Question | Answer |
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awake and alert; oriented to time, place, and person; behavior appropriate for age. | full consciousness |
impaired decision making. Disorientation- disorientation to time and place, decreased level of consciousness. | confusion |
limited spontaneous movement, sluggish speech, drowsiness. | lethargy |
arousable with stimulation. | obtundation |
remaining in a deep sleep, responsive ONLY to Vigorous and repeated stimulation. | stupor |
No motor or verbal response to noxious (painful) stimuli | coma |
eyes following objects only by reflex or when attracted to the direction of loud sounds, all four limbs spastic but can withdraw from painful stimuli, hands showing reflexive grasping and groping, face grimacing, | the permanently lost func of the cerebral cortex;some food may be swallowed, and the child may groan or cry but utters NO words. PERSISTENT VEGATATIVE STATE |
A three part assessment: eye opening, verbal response, and motor response. Numeric values of 1 through 5 are assigned to the levels of response in each category | GLASS GOW COMA SCALE |
The person with an unaltered LOC would score the highest,___a score of ___ or below is generally accepted as a definition of coma; the lowest score, 3, indicates deep coma. | glass gow coma score of 15 (unaltered loc). 8 or below is coma. score of 3 indicates deep coma |
A three part assessment: eye opening, verbal response, and motor response. Numeric values of 1 through 5 are assigned to the levels of response in each category | GLASS GOW COMA SCALE |
The person with an unaltered LOC would score the highest,___a score of ___ or below is generally accepted as a definition of coma; the lowest score, 3, indicates deep coma. | glass gow coma score of 15 (unaltered loc). 8 or below is coma. score of 3 indicates deep coma |