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Jan 06 2025HEALTH

The Glasgow Coma Scale: 50 Years of Simplifying Brain Injury Assessment

Half a century ago, the medical community got a game-changer. Sir Graham Teasdale and Bryan Jennett introduced the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) in The Lancet. They wanted a clear, easy-to-use tool to rate coma levels. Back then, doctors used different words for consciousness. It was confusing. The GCS changed that with numbers. No one knew then how big this would be. But...

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