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GCS Infant/Toddler <2

Best eye response

Score

Spontaneously

To verbal stimulation or to touch

To pain

No response

4

3

2

1

Best verbal response

Smiles, oriented to sounds, follows objects, interacts

Cries but is consolable, inappropriate interactions

Inconsistently consolable, moaning

Inconsolable, agitated

No vocal response

5

4

3

2

1

Motor

Normal spontaneous movement

Withdraws to touch

Withdraws to pain

Flexion, abnormal

Extension, either spontaneous or to painful stimuli

Flaccid

6

5

4

3

2

1