The Glasgow Coma Score (Teasdale and Jennet 1974) is a scale used to assess a patients conscious level. A score is allocated for different behaviours (eye opening‚ verbal response‚ best motor response). These are based on awareness‚ arousal and activity. It is quick‚ objective and easily interpreted. A score of 15 indicates that the patient is fully alert and responsive and a score of 3 indicates unconsciousness |Category |Score
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Glasgow coma scale is a neurological scale which is used in assessing the level of consciousness of a person the initial score of a person is taken and recorded and this is compared with the subsequent score of the person. This is done to note if the patient is improving or deteriorating. The scoring is made based on certain criteria and a score of 3-15 is made. The score 3 indicates deep unconsciousness while the score 15 indicates full consciousness. The Glasgow coma scale was published in 1974
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Government and we believe that large scale development should be allowed in the Amazon rainforest and I am going to give you our reasons in this speech. Firstly we know that the tourism industry is one of the country’s biggest employers‚ involving one in every eleven workers. It contributes an estimated 8 percent to the country’s GDP. In the rainforest quite a substantial amount of developments will be to do with tourism therefore making the industry even greater. Also the tribes that live in the rainforest
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regarding the physical development of babies and young children. Her research was entitled the ‘Bayley Scales of Infant Development’ and medical institutions use it to this day when measuring the growth of babies from 2 to 30 months. This research was drawn from 16 new born babies‚ where she monitored the motor and physical development. McGraw‚ who practiced at the same time as Bayley and who was also a child psychologist put her research into children’s muscle ability and mental process. She was one
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BRADEN SCALE – For Predicting Pressure Sore Risk DATE OF ASSESS SEVERE RISK: Total score 9 HIGH RISK: Total score 10-12 MODERATE RISK: Total score 13-14 MILD RISK: Total score 15-18 RISK FACTOR SCORE/DESCRIPTION SENSORY PERCEPTION 1. COMPLETELY LIMITED – Unresponsive Ability to respond meaningfully to pressure-related discomfort (does not moan‚ flinch‚ or grasp) to painful stimuli‚ due to diminished level of consciousness or sedation‚ OR limited ability to feel pain over most of body surface
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Financing small scale business enterprises CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACK GROUND OF THE STUDY Over the years‚ it has become fashionable for successive government to come up with one economic policy or the other in a bid to bring about improvement in the nation during her regime. The then military administrator in the year 1986 while in power introduced an economic program called Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) which was foisted on Nigerians as an alternative to IMF/World
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Measurement Scales Paper MKT/441 Donald Reinhart Measurement Scales Paper Market research in business is important by keeping up with the everyday life of consumer society. Market research helps businesses study what are the likes and dislikes of consumers‚ what is popular‚ and what products are already out in the market. Market research collects data and information about the products and services from the past‚ present and potential use from the customers. Customers
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production associated with Delta‚ economies of scale are also relevant to this firm. Economies of scale operate to the left of Q* or the minimum efficient scale of operations according to class lecture notes. So it is in firms best interest to expand and operate at a more efficient level. Delta is a Legacy Airline; because Delta is one of the larger airlines Delta’s costs are expensive in terms of operation. According to lecture notes from class‚ economies of scale are characterized by the specialization
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dynamic role of small scale business in developing countries has long been recognized (Kayanula and Quartey‚ 2000). These small scale businesses can serve as engines through which the economic growth and employment objectives of developing countries can be achieved. However‚ for many years these rural enterprises have failed to grow beyond their micro enterprise nature and sometimes at best their small or medium size (Kayanula and Quartey‚ 2000). It is believed that private small scale businesses have
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Business and Ethics on a Global Scale In a business sense the world is shrinking at a fast pace. With each passing day the global marketplace is becoming more appealing and more accessible. Although business may bring people together‚ culture is a dividing line that needs to be addressed in a thoughtful manner. When dealing business in other cultures it is important to keep traditions and differences in mind. Potential clients may have different perspectives as to what is ethical and what
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