Sentence examples for assessment of coma from inspiring English sources

7 Children younger than 9 months were not considered because at their developmental stage they cannot localise painful stimuli, a key criterion in our assessment of coma.

Neurological examination, including assessment of delirium, coma, brain stem reflexes and level of sedation were assessed daily for 14 days.

Additional larger prospective studies are needed to confirm whether continuous EEG may be a helpful tool for the prognostic assessment of postanoxic coma.

Additional larger prospective studies are needed to confirm our findings and to verify further whether continuous EEG can be helpful for the prognostic assessment of postanoxic coma.

The validity of collecting APACHE II data from retrospective chart review has not, to our knowledge, been validated (for example, accurate assessment of Glasgow coma score may be very difficult).

Additionally, whereas the variability in the subjective assessment of the Glasgow Coma Scale component in the SOFA may affect its inter-observer accuracy, the binary nature of the comparison measure in the STSS of 'altered mental state' may ameliorate this source of error.

Thus, so far the assessment of the level of coma has to rely on clinical scores.

Introduction: Multimodal assessment is recommended for prognostication of coma after cardiac arrest (CA).

We examined the additive effect of the Ramsay scale, Canadian Neurological Scale (CNS), Nursing Delirium Screening Scale (Nu‐DESC), and Bispectral Index (BIS) to see whether along with the assessment of pupils and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) it improved early detection of postoperative neurological complications.

Blood sugar: 0 points: blood sugar not tested at time of coma or Blantyre assessment.

−1 point: blood sugar <3 mmol/l at time of coma or Blantyre score assessment.