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Nursing Care Of Glasgow Coma Skills In Head Injury Patient

Nursing Care Of Glasgow Coma Skills In Head Injury Patient

Introduction

The Glasgow Coma Scale was officially published in 1974 by Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett, professors of neurology at the University of Glasgow, in the Lancet, as a way to assess the depth and duration of clinical unconsciousness and coma(Bruno, et.al, 2011, pp.447-453).

In 1970, the National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, funded two parallel international studies. While studied comatose patients with severe head injuries and the second focused on the medical prognosis of coma. The researchers then developed these studies the “Index eat”, which later became the Glasgow coma scale, as the statistical data applied thinned the scoring system, and then the number 1 as the lowest score and then , an ordinal scale was applied to observe trends (Chamoun, ,et.al, 2009,p. 683).

The aim of this research is for the nurses who can develop their skills in Glasgow coma scale to treat head injury. The Glasgow Coma Scale was initially developed to be used as a facilitator or better research tool to study the level of consciousness of patients with severe head trauma and incisively, measure function in comatose patients, the difficulty defining the extent of brain injury.

Discussion

History of Glasgow Coma Scale

History of the Glasgow Coma Scale The Glasgow Coma Scale was officially published by Teasdale and Jennet in 1974 in the Lancet, as a support for the evaluation of the depth and clinical duration of unconsciousness and coma (Brazinova, et.al, 2010,pp. 1549-1555).

In 1970, the National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded two international studies parallel. One studied the comatose patient with severe head injuries, and the second focused the medical prognosis of coma. Researchers such studies verified the difficulty of defining the extent of brain damage.

In 1974, the first version of an instrument used to define severe brain injury has been known as “Index eat”, which later became the Glasgow coma scale, as the statistical refined the scoring system, choosing the number 1 as the lowest score, then a ordinal scale was applied to observe trends. Initially, the Glasgow coma scale was designed to be used as a tool research to study the level of awareness of patients severe head trauma and objectively measure function in comatose patients.

Jennett commented that the scale was adopted for improve communication between professionals, providing a common language to inform neurological findings based on information obtained at the bedside. Jennet gave credit to nurses in bedside to the initial success of the coma scale

In his famous 1974 article in the journal Lancet, Teasdale and Jennet , Introduced the Glasgow coma scale as a scale practice to evaluate the depth and duration of decreased consciousness and coma. Teasdale and Jennett worked in Glasgow, Scotland, hence the name of city was incorporated into the title of the scale. Gradually, the scale of coma become refined widely accepted throughout Scotland, winning ...