Practical procedures: AVPU assessment

Continuing with his series on practical procedures, Phil Jevon describes how the dental nurse can assess a patient's level of consciousness using AVPU—alert, voice, pain, unresponsive—a key component of disability in the ABCDE scale.

[1]  Max Geraghty.  Nursing the unconscious patient. , 2005, Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987).

[2]  C. Waterhouse.  The Glasgow Coma Scale and other neurological observations. , 2005, Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987).