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Japan Coma Scale as a Grading Scale of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage : a way to determine the scale Kiyoshi TAKAGI 1 , Makoto AOKI 1 , Teruyuki ISHII 1 , Yukie NAGASHIMA 1 , Koji NARITA 1 , Tadayoshi NAKAGOMI 1 , Akira TAMURA 1 , Nobuyuki YASUI 2 , Hiromu HADEISHI 2 , Mamoru TANEDA 3 , Keiji SANO 1 1Department of Neurosurgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine 2Department of Neurosurgery, Research Institute for Brain and Blood Vessels-Akita 3Department of Neurosurgery, Kinki University School of Medicine Keyword: subarachnoid hemorrhage , Japan Coma Scale , Glasgow Coma Scale , grade , outcome pp.509-515
Published Date 1998/6/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1436901578
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Background: The grading scale for subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAD) with inter-grade outcome differen-ces is essential for evaluating the effectiveness of newly developed therapeutic modalities. Although Hunt'sgrade and WFNS scale have been widely used, these grading scales do not meet this requirement. We pre-viously proposed a revised WFNS scale based solely on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) that has inter-grade outcome differences of high-level significance. The Japan Coma Scale (ICS) has been long andwidely used in Japan. The purpose of this study is to show whether it is possible to determine a reason-able SAH grading scale based on the JCS and to show a way to determine an SAH grading scale.

Patients and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 1398 consecutive cases of aneurysmal SAH operatedon within Day 7 of the latest onset. The preoperative JCS and GCS were evaluated just before the surgeryand the Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS), analyzed with numerical transformation (1=dead to 5=goodrecovery), was estimated at 6 months after the onset. All 510 possible combinations of scores of JCS werestatistically tested under the following 2 assumptions; (1) JCS=0 and JCS=100 fall into a single indepen-dent grade. (2) No other single JCS score should fall into a single grade.

Results: The outcome differences between JCS 0 and 1, and 100 and 200 are significant. The outcomedifference between JCS 30 and 100 is relatively higher than any other set of 2 scores of JCS. Only 5 com-binations are practical among the candidates to be analyzed. Out of 510 combinations, the following conthi-nation shows the highest inter-grade outcome differences; I (JCS=0, n=375, mean GOS=4.78) II (JCS=1, 2;n=310 mean GOS=4.17) III (JCS=3-30 n=476; mean GOS=3.96) IV (JCS=100 n=96;mean GOS=3.10) V (JCS=200, 300; n=141;mean GOS=2.33). In JCS, the mean outcome of JCS=3 isworse than those of JCS=10, 20, and 30. The outcome difference between JCS 0 and 1 is only significantin patients over 60 years old.

Conclusion: Taking all the 510 possible combinations of JCS into consideration, we obtained a reason-able combination containing 5 grades. Although this grading scale showed good inter-grade outcome differ-ences, JCS is not preferable to GCS as a consciousness evaluation system in the acute phase of SAH Weemphasize the importance of this way to determine a grading scale with a combinatorial approach, whichcan he applicable for re-evaluating the grading scales in the future.


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