How would you score the Glasgow coma scale in a postop patient who is admitted to the ICU sedated and paralyzed? The Glasgow Coma Scale is a widely used standardized test that evaluates the degree of ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh discovered a promising new biomarker of "complicated" mild to severe pediatric traumatic brain injury, or TBI.

Coma scales have been developed for evaluating depth of consciousness and helping in prediction of outcome. This last issue is best assessed by several other clinical and neurophysiologic tests. For ...