“…1 In the 30 years since its introduction, the GCS has remained the cornerstone of initial traumatic brain injury evaluation by outof-hospital personnel, emergency physicians, trauma surgeons, and neurosurgeons. The GCS is believed to assist with communication, 2,15,16 is known to affect decisions about intervention, 14,[17][18][19][20] and is used in many circumstances to allocate resources. 3,8,[21][22][23] This ubiquitous neurologic score has been incorporated into a number of clinical decision rules 17,24,25 and other trauma scores [26][27][28][29] and has become the undisputed criterion standard for traumatic brain injury assessment.…”