How do you tell if someone is in a coma? It might not sound like a difficult question. But in the 1970s, two Glasgow neurosurgeons spent years developing a measure to solve this very problem. The ...
In 1974, Bryan Jennett and Graham Teasdale first developed the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) to evaluate coma and level of consciousness based on eye, motor, and verbal responses, with total scores ranging ...