A patient is brought to the emergency department following a motor vehicle accident. The patient jerks away from the nurse attempting to start an IV in the right arm and says, "Bring me my book. I need to eat."
When asked what happened in the accident, the patient looks frantically from nurse to nurse and says, "I have a dog.". Calculate the patient's Glasgow Coma Scale score.
12
Rationale : The patient scores 4 for spontaneous eye-opening, 5 for localizing pain and having a motor response by pulling away, and a 3 for using inappropriate words. 4 + 5 + 3 = 12.
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