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A patient is brought to the emergency department following a motor vehicle accident. The patient jerks away from the nurse attempting to start an IV in the right arm and says, "Bring me my book. I need to eat." When asked what happened in the accident, the patient looks frantically from nurse to nurse and says, "I have a dog." Calculate the patient's Glasgow Coma score. A patient is brought to the emergency department following a motor vehicle accident. The patient jerks away from the nurse attempting to start an IV in the right arm and says,  Bring me my book. I need to eat.  When asked what happened in the accident, the patient looks frantically from nurse to nurse and says,  I have a dog.  Calculate the patient's Glasgow Coma score.   Record your answer rounding to the nearest whole number. Record your answer rounding to the nearest whole number.


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