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- Published on: 16 September 2009
- Published on: 16 September 2009A low GCS does not equate to a compromised airway reflexShow More
Sibbald and colleagues raise the important point that sedation often verges on the edge of general anaesthesia during emergency department sedation in response to Vardy et al’s audit of ED sedation practice(1,2). They do, however, make the false assumption that a GCS of 8 or less is equivalent to the loss of airway reflexes.
Moulton et al(3,4), in two papers describing the relationship between the GCS and gag a...
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