Paediatric Glasgow Coma Scale - Best Motor Responses: (M)

Best Motor Responses: (M)

  1. Infant moves spontaneously or purposefully
  2. Infant withdraws from touch
  3. Infant withdraws from pain
  4. Abnormal flexion to pain for an infant (decorticate response)
  5. Extension to pain (decerebrate response)
  6. No motor response

Any combined score of less than eight represents a significant risk of mortality.

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