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Defusing GCS in a Mild TBI Case
“GCS is not looking at long-term outcomes. It’s looking at that little slice in time right after the injury happened in the acute phase.” – Tom Crosley
Welcome to Winning The TBI Case, hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigation attorneys who are ready to explore the essentials of TBI cases to confidently represent clients who have suffered traumatic brain injuries.
What’s In This Episode:
Tom Crosley explains how the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) gets weaponized by defense attorneys in mild TBI cases. He breaks down what GCS actually measures, why it was created, and how to defuse defense arguments that use normal GCS scores to discredit legitimate brain injury cases.Defusing the Defense Weapon
This is for trial lawyers who need to understand why a normal GCS score doesn’t mean their client wasn’t injured. Tom reveals how defense attorneys take one number from acute medical records and use it to undermine entire cases. He explains the historical context of GCS which was created in 1974 as a bedside tool designed for neurosurgeons to assess coma depth and decide on emergency surgery, not to predict long-term outcomes.
GCS measures three basic functions:
All tests that any elementary school student or family dog could pass. Tom provides the analogies and cross-examination techniques to expose how this acute triage tool has zero relevance to how patients function years later in life. By understanding what GCS actually measures (and what it doesn’t), you have the power to educate juries and neutralize one of the defense’s favorite, and often misleading, arguments.
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By Tom Crosley“GCS is not looking at long-term outcomes. It’s looking at that little slice in time right after the injury happened in the acute phase.” – Tom Crosley
Welcome to Winning The TBI Case, hosted by trial lawyer Tom Crosley. Listen as Tom provides practical, powerful guidance for litigating traumatic brain injury cases. This podcast is meant for litigation attorneys who are ready to explore the essentials of TBI cases to confidently represent clients who have suffered traumatic brain injuries.
What’s In This Episode:
Tom Crosley explains how the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) gets weaponized by defense attorneys in mild TBI cases. He breaks down what GCS actually measures, why it was created, and how to defuse defense arguments that use normal GCS scores to discredit legitimate brain injury cases.Defusing the Defense Weapon
This is for trial lawyers who need to understand why a normal GCS score doesn’t mean their client wasn’t injured. Tom reveals how defense attorneys take one number from acute medical records and use it to undermine entire cases. He explains the historical context of GCS which was created in 1974 as a bedside tool designed for neurosurgeons to assess coma depth and decide on emergency surgery, not to predict long-term outcomes.
GCS measures three basic functions:
All tests that any elementary school student or family dog could pass. Tom provides the analogies and cross-examination techniques to expose how this acute triage tool has zero relevance to how patients function years later in life. By understanding what GCS actually measures (and what it doesn’t), you have the power to educate juries and neutralize one of the defense’s favorite, and often misleading, arguments.
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