To what extent are GCS and AVPU equivalent to each other when assessing the level of consciousness of children with head injury? A cross-sectional study of UK hospital admissions - Nuttall AG, Paton KM, Kemp AM.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate utility and equivalence of Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and the Alert, Voice, Pain, Unresponsive (AVPU) scale in children with head injury. DESIGN: Cross sectional study. SETTING: UK hospital admissions: September 2009-February 2...
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