The Glasgow Coma Scale: Clinical application in emergency departments

Emergency Nurse

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 30-35

  Iankova, Andriana ^a,b  

^a CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ETHICS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PUPIL REFLEX; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFLEX, PUPILLARY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33845794513     PISSN: 13545752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7748/en2006.12.14.8.30.c4221     Document Type: Article

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