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1
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What is consciousness?

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Wakefulness with awareness of self and surroundings

2
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What is clouding of consciousness?

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Reduced wakefulness or self awareness without confusion.

3
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What is confusion?

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Bewilderment and misinterprets their surroundings

4
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What is delirium?

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State of confusion.

Often has visual hallucinations

5
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What is a stupor?

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Abnormal sleep state from which the subject cannot be raised normally but can with painful stimuli.

6
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What is a coma?

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Unrousable and unresponsive

7
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How are comas/consciousness measured?

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Glasgow Coma Scale

8
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What are the three categories of the GCS?

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Eye opening (E)
Motor response (M)
Verbal response (V)
9
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What are the four levels of eye opening in GCS?

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Spontaneous- 4
To speech- 3
To pain- 2
No response- 1

10
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What are the six levels of motor response in GCS?

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Obeys- 6
Localises- 5
Withdraws- 4
Flexion- 3
Extension- 2
No response- 1
11
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What are the five levels of verbal response in GCS?

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Orientation- 5 
Confused conversation- 4 
Inappropriate words- 3
Incomprehensible sounds- 2
No response- 1
12
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What are the three broad things that can cause a coma?

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Diffuse brain dysfunction
Direct effect within the brainstem
Pressure effect on the brain stem

13
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Give some examples of Diffuse brain dysfunction.

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Anything that depresses function- metabolic or toxic etc

14
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Give some examples of Direct effect within the brainstem.

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Brain stem lesion

15
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Give some examples of Pressure effect on the brain stem

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Mass lesion- tumor, bleed etc