Glasgow Coma Scale Motor Component (“Patient Does Not Follow Commands”) Performs Similarly to Total Glasgow Coma Scale in Predicting Severe Injury in Trauma Patients

Replacement of the total GCS score with a simple binary decision point of GCS-m score less than 6, or a patient who “does not follow commands,” predicts serious injury, as well as the total GCS score, and would simplify out-of-hospital trauma triage.