What is the GCS of this patient?

[BEorP]

What would you give the following patient as a GCS?

The patient is found lying in bed with their eyes open, not responding to verbal or pain. The patient is in cardiac arrest.

I know this may seem like a joke, but please just humour me.

[akflightmedic]

They are a 3.

The lowest GCS score possible.

[mobey]

Push her eyelids shut and call her a three lol

Actually the eye portion is graded on Eye opening from a closed position. Since her eyes are open and fixed that will put her at 1.

[Just Plain Ruff]

I'll bet that someone graded them as a 6. Am I right?

[Scaramedic]

What would you give the following patient as a GCS?

The patient is found lying in bed with their eyes open, not responding to verbal or pain. The patient is in cardiac arrest.

I know this may seem like a joke, but please just humour me.

If that is a test question it is a stupid test question. Why not skip the whole 'Annie, Annie are you OK' part and just say what would be the GCS score of a patient in cardiac arrest.

Besides, it is missing important info. It jumps from unresponsive to cardiac arrest. What happened to the quick look? Check for a pulse? Breathing? Nope, just unresponsive with eyes open = cardiac arrest. :shock:

[scratrat]

Does it matter? Do a pronouncement and leave.

[ccmedoc]

GCS= "3"

[BEorP]

I'll bet that someone graded them as a 6. Am I right?

You are very wise. I'm glad that none of our members are any of those people though.

[BEorP]

If that is a test question it is a stupid test question. Why not skip the whole 'Annie, Annie are you OK' part and just say what would be the GCS score of a patient in cardiac arrest.

Besides, it is missing important info. It jumps from unresponsive to cardiac arrest. What happened to the quick look? Check for a pulse? Breathing? Nope, just unresponsive with eyes open = cardiac arrest. :shock:

I'm not too sure what you're trying to say here... this was not any type of test question. There was no info missing for the question I was answering.

[Dustdevil]

You are very wise. I'm glad that none of our members are any of those people though.

LMAO! That's funny right there!

I'd be willing to bet that a LOT of EMTs would call it a 6 too though. That's what I mean when I talk about them being trained on skills, but not understanding the underlying medicine. Memorising mnemonics and stuff, but not having a clue what the results mean.