Glasgow Coma Scale Quiz

In each component of the Glasgow Coma Scale the 'Best Response' is,

You are assessing the motor component of a patient's Glasgow Coma Scale. They are unable to obey commands but bend their elbow when their finger nail bed is stimulated. What do you do next?

Normal flexion, where a patients elbow bends and their arm moves rapidly away from their body and from a stimulus, is given what number in the Glasgow Coma Scale?

• Motor 2

• Motor 4

• Motor 1

When assessing a patient, what is the reason for the CHECK step in the assessment?

• To listen for sounds from the patient

• To identify factors that may interfere with the assessment

• To look at the previous Glasgow Coma Scale assessment on the patient's chart

When assessing a patient, you should:

• Observe, Move, Feel, Rate

• Check, Observe, Stimulate, Rate

• Look, Feel, Rate, Stimulate

What are the three components of the Glasgow Coma Scale?

• Eyes, Motor, Memory

• Eyes, Motor, Pain

• Eyes, Verbal, Motor

If when you approach the patient they are awake and looking at you, how would you record this on the Glasgow Coma Scale?

• Spontaneous eye opening

• Orientated

• Obeying commands

Each of the three components of the Glasgow Coma Scale have a number of steps. Which of these are the correct combinations?

• Eyes 5 Verbal 4 Motor 6

• Eyes 4 Verbal 5 Motor 5

• Eyes 4 Verbal 5 Motor 6

A 45 year old man called Hamish is admitted to the Emergency Department on Sunday 1 January 2014 after being assaulted. When you ask the patient to tell you his name, where he is and what the date is, he answers, Hamish, Hospital, December. How would you record this finding?

• Orientated

• Confused

• Words

What possible sequence of responses is assessed in the eye component?

• Spontaneous, To Sound, To Pressure, None

• Spontaneous, None, To Pain, To Sound

• To Pressure, None, To Spoken Word, Spontaneous