Adult and ≥4 years | | <4 years |
Eye opening | | Eye opening |
Spontaneously | 4 | Spontaneously |
To verbal stimuli | 3 | To verbal stimuli |
To painful stimuli | 2 | To painful stimuli |
No response to pain | 1 | No response to pain |
Best verbal response | | Best verbal response |
Orientated and converses | 5 | Appropriate words or social smile, fixes, follows |
Confused and converses | 4 | Cries but consolable; less than usual words |
Inappropriate words | 3 | Persistently irritable |
Incomprehensible sounds | 2 | Moans to pain |
No response to pain | 1 | No response to pain |
Best motor response | | Best motor response |
Obeys verbal commands | 6 | Spontaneous or obeys verbal commands |
Localises to stimuli | 5 | Localises to stimuli |
Withdraws to stimuli | 4 | Withdraws to stimuli |
Abnormal flexion to pain (decorticate) | 3 | Abnormal flexion to pain (decorticate) |
Abnormal extension to pain (decerebrate) | 2 | Abnormal extension to pain (decerebrate) |
No response to pain | 1 | No response to pain |