Yeah, i am back again. I really wanted to make out time for another write-up b4 the week ran out. lol
My first time on rotation in an A&E ward, i had taken time to try to study and take in the images of things, situation and attitude of patients, family members and the medical staff. In the process of looking around like a lukman in a busy room, i noticed a coma scale pasted on the wall and i snapped it........
I had hardly gone through it before a resident doctor asked me if i could grade a patient in a comatose state with Glasgow. Well i was so glad to say i could, so lucky me.
Then in pediatrics ward i was asked about the scale again and this time i wasn't lucky cos the consultant said what coma scale is used for grading in children that are not talking yet and thus i loooooooked ............
Well we will get back to the remainder of the story l8r.
This is the scale:
Pls note the differences between both
There is no minimum of 0 in Glasgow, its 3 but in Blantyre there could be 0.
Blantyre total is 5 and Glasgow is 15
Both are used to grade improvement or deterioration in comatose patient
In Glasgow 7-9 is seen as the red-zone
In Blantyre its 2 that is redzone
You can thank me later but you could do well to add more differences and similarities not mentioned.
PEACE
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