Glasco Coma Scale Updates

Patients with spontaneous eye opening do demonstrate spontaneous blinking, and that differentiates them from completely unresponsive patients whose eyes are sometimes passively open. The best response is spontaneous orienting eye movement, where a patient will look toward stimuli (not just roving eye movements).

Also, eye opening to verbal stimuli is any verbal stimuli, not just the command to open his or her eyes.

(from The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma)

~Mel'