Paediatric Glasgow Coma Scale
The Paediatric Glasgow Coma Scale (also known as Paediatric Glasgow Coma Score or simply PGCS) is the equivalent of the Glasgow Coma Scale used to assess the mental state of adult patients.
Best eye response: (E)
- Eyes opening spontaneously
- Eye opening to speech
- Eye opening to pain
- No eye opening
Best verbal response: (V)
- Infant coos or babbles (normal activity)
- Infant is irritable and continually cries
- Infant cries to pain
- Infant moans to pain
- No verbal response
Best motor responses: (M)
- Infant moves spontaneously or purposefully
- Infant withdraws from touch
- Infant withdraws from pain
- Abnormal flexion to pain for an infant (decorticate response)
- Extension to pain (decerebrate response)
- No motor response

