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Question:
You are an off-duty EMT who is coaching your son’s Little League team. A stray ball goes over the fence and hits a four-year-old female in the head, knocking her to the ground. You run to the patient and begin an assessment, after asking a bystander to call 911. Your patient opens her eyes to painful stimuli, has incomprehensible sounds, and withdraws to pain. What is your patient’s Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)?
A
8
explanation
Referring to the Glasgow Coma Scale, the patient receives a 2 for eye-opening in response to pain, a 2 for an incomprehensible verbal response, and a 4 for withdrawing to pain as her motor response. The total is 8.
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