RE: RE: an exciting day at the yard sale...

From: tmfu (tmfu@home.com)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 13:33:29 EDT


>
> > APGAR? Thought that was used only at birth? You sure you didn't mean
> > GlASCO Come Scale?
>
> > Karsh
>
> Ok dangit, what do those stand for?
>

Activity
Pulse
Grimace
Appearance
Respiration

For new borns...

The Glascow Coma Scale is a scale that assigns a score (1-5) for Eye
opening, motor response, and verbal responsiveness for a patient who
suffered a brain injury. The lower the score the greater the brain injury..

Greg
2K1 Neon ES
Rahway, NJ
http://24.6.89.18/Neon
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