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There are rate sensors you can put on a chest like an ekg lead. Though being covered in wires is also pretty awful. Or you can use a pen light and watch for ris

There are rate sensors you can put on a chest like an ekg lead. Though being covered in wires is also pretty awful. Or you can use a pen light and watch for rise and fall of chest. Also, Glasgow Coma Scale absolutely can be administered to someone who isn’t awake but this is really just me nit picking, your point about needing to be intrusive or waking people up is correct overall. Certain things are bothersome, some are painful, most of it will wage people up.

matheusmoreira 3y ago
> Glasgow Coma Scale absolutely can be administered to someone who isn’t awake Of course, it is a coma scale after all. Actually applying it to sleeping patients though? Will get you false positives at best: even healthy patients will fail to respond verbally (-4), blink their eyes (-1) and obey commands (-1) if they're asleep. That's a maximum GCS of 9 even if you stop there. If you don't stop there, you might just get punched in the face when they are rudely awakened to the sight of you testing their pain response.