Ability of Glasgow Coma Scale and Full Outline of Unresponsiveness Score in Measuring Level of Consciousness and Outcome in Patients Receiving Sedation Under Mechanical Ventilation | Zendy

Aliakbar Keykha | Zendy; Hassan Askari | Zendy; Ali Navidian | Zendy; Bibi Mahdie Khodadadi Hosseini | Zendy

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Ability of Glasgow Coma Scale and Full Outline of Unresponsiveness Score in Measuring Level of Consciousness and Outcome in Patients Receiving Sedation Under Mechanical Ventilation

Author(s) -

Aliakbar Keykha,

Hassan Askari,

Ali Navidian,

Bibi Mahdie Khodadadi Hosseini

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

critical care nursing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2008-336X

pISSN - 2008-3084

DOI - 10.5812/ccn.10160

Subject(s) - glasgow coma scale , sedation , medicine , mechanical ventilation , level of consciousness , intensive care unit , coma (optics) , analysis of variance , anesthesia , intensive care , repeated measures design , ventilation (architecture) , intensive care medicine , statistics , mechanical engineering , physics , mathematics , optics , engineering

Background: Determining the level of consciousness is one of the main responsibilities of nurses in intensive care unit (ICUs). Scales used to determine the level of consciousness should be less affected by the injection of analgesics and sedatives and should provide proper vision of the patient’s status. Objectives: This study was conducted to assess the ability of two tools including Glasgow coma scale (GCS) and full outline of unresponsiveness (FOUR) score in measuring the level of consciousness and outcome in patients receiving sedation under mechanical

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