Assessing the level of consciousness in children: A plea for the Glasgow Coma Motor subscore

Resuscitation

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-179

  Van de Voorde, Patrick ^a   Sabbe, Marc ^b   Rizopoulos, Dimitris ^c   Tsonaka, Roula ^c   De Jaeger, Annick ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^c   Peters, Mark ^d,e  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Child; Glasgow coma scale

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 38049000842     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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