How is the Glasgow Coma Scale structured and what are the mild, moderate, and severe ranges?

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How is the Glasgow Coma Scale structured and what are the mild, moderate, and severe ranges?

The Glasgow Coma Scale measures consciousness by evaluating three parts: eye opening, verbal response, and motor response. Each part has a fixed range: eye opening 1–4, verbal response 1–5, and motor response 1–6. Add these together and you get a total score from 3 to 15. Based on that total, injury severity is categorized as mild (13–15), moderate (9–12), or severe (8 or less). The option that exactly matches this structure and these ranges is the one that lists the total 3–15 with eye opening 1–4, verbal 1–5, motor 1–6, and mild 13–15, moderate 9–12, severe ≤8. The other choices either misstate the total range, the component ranges, or the severity cutoffs.

The Glasgow Coma Scale measures consciousness by evaluating three parts: eye opening, verbal response, and motor response. Each part has a fixed range: eye opening 1–4, verbal response 1–5, and motor response 1–6. Add these together and you get a total score from 3 to 15. Based on that total, injury severity is categorized as mild (13–15), moderate (9–12), or severe (8 or less). The option that exactly matches this structure and these ranges is the one that lists the total 3–15 with eye opening 1–4, verbal 1–5, motor 1–6, and mild 13–15, moderate 9–12, severe ≤8. The other choices either misstate the total range, the component ranges, or the severity cutoffs.

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