Preoperative Assessment of Adult Patients for Intracranial Surgery

Table 1

Glasgow Coma Scale.

Parameter	Score
Eye opening
Spontaneously	4
To speech	3
To pain	2
None	1
Best verbal response
Orientated	5
Confused	4
Inappropriate words	3
Incomprehensible sounds	2
None	1
Best motor response
Obeys commands	6
Localizing pain	5
Withdraws from pain	4
Flexion to pain	3
Extension to pain	2
None	1

Patients with a scale score less than 7 require intubation for airway protection.