Full Outline of Unresponsiveness Score versus Glasgow Coma Scale in Predicting Clinical Outcomes in Altered Mental Status
| Title: | Full Outline of Unresponsiveness Score versus Glasgow Coma Scale in Predicting Clinical Outcomes in Altered Mental Status |
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| Authors: | Savan Pandey; Ankit Kumar Sahu; Meera Ekka; Priyanka Modi; Praveen Aggarwal; Nayer Jamshed; Sanjeev Bhoi |
| Source: | Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, Vol 17, Iss 2, Pp 102-106 (2024) |
| Publisher Information: | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications |
| Publication Year: | 2024 |
| Collection: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
| Subject Terms: | altered sensorium; full outline of unresponsiveness score; glasgow coma scale score; Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid; RC86-88.9 |
| Description: | Introduction: Full outline of unresponsiveness (FOUR) score has advantages over Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS); as it can be used in intubated patients and provides greater neurological details. It has been studied mainly in the trauma and neuroscience setting. Our primary objective was to compare the FOUR versus GCS score as predictors of mortality at 30 days and poor functional outcome at 3 months among nontrauma patients in the emergency department (ED). Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted on adult patients presenting with altered mental status (duration |
| Document Type: | article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jets.jets_76_23; https://doaj.org/toc/0974-2700; https://doaj.org/toc/0974-519X; https://doaj.org/article/c09fc5271b0b465eb130f810568192af |
| DOI: | 10.4103/jets.jets_76_23 |
| Availability: | https://doi.org/10.4103/jets.jets_76_23; https://doaj.org/article/c09fc5271b0b465eb130f810568192af |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.518EB4D0 |
| Database: | BASE |