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SECONDs administration guidelines: A fast tool for assessing consciousness in brain-injured patients
Sanz, Leandro; Aubinet, Charlène; Cassol, Helena et al.
2021In Journal of Visualized Experiments, (168), p. 61968
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Abstract :
[en] Establishing an accurate diagnosis is crucial for patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) following a severe brain injury. The Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) is the recommended behavioral scale for assessing the level of consciousness among these patients, but its long administration duration is a major hurdle in clinical settings. The Simplified Evaluation of CONsciousness Disorders (SECONDs) is a shorter scale that was developed to tackle this issue. It consists of six mandatory items, observation, command-following, visual pursuit, visual fixation, oriented behaviors, and arousal, and two conditional items, communication and localization to pain. The score ranges between 0 and 8 and corresponds to a specific diagnosis (i.e., coma, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, minimally conscious state minus/plus, or emergence from the minimally conscious state). A first validation study on patients with prolonged DoC showed high concurrent validity and intra- and inter-rater reliability. The SECONDs requires less training than the CRS-R and its administration lasts about 7 minutes (interquartile range: 5-9 minutes). An additional index score allows the more precise tracking of a patient’s behavioral fluctuation or evolution over time. The SECONDs is therefore a fast and valid tool for assessing the level of consciousness in patients with severe brain injury. It can easily be used by healthcare staff and implemented in time-constrained clinical settings, such as intensive care units, to help decrease misdiagnosis rates and to optimize treatment decisions. These administration guidelines provide detailed instructions for administering the SECONDs in a standardized and reproducible manner, which is an essential requirement for achieving a reliable diagnosis.
Research Center/Unit :
Giga Consciousness-Coma Science Group ; CHU de Liège - Centre du Cerveau²
Disciplines :
Neurology
Author, co-author :
Sanz, Leandro   ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Consciousness-Coma Science Group
Aubinet, Charlène   ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Consciousness-Coma Science Group
Cassol, Helena ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Ingénierie des véhicules terrestres
BODART, Olivier  ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Département de médecine interne > Service de neurologie
Wannez, Sarah 
Bonin, Estelle  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > GIGA
Barra, Alice  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > GIGA
Lejeune, Nicolas  
Martial, Charlotte  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Consciousness-Coma Science Group
Chatelle, Camille 
LEDOUX, Didier  ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Autres Services Médicaux > Service des soins intensifs
Laureys, Steven  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Giga Consciousness-Coma Science Group
Thibaut, Aurore  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Consciousness-Coma Science Group
Gosseries, Olivia  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Consciousness-Coma Science Group
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 These authors have contributed equally to this work.
Language :
English
Title :
SECONDs administration guidelines: A fast tool for assessing consciousness in brain-injured patients
Publication date :
06 February 2021
Journal title :
Journal of Visualized Experiments
eISSN :
1940-087X
Publisher :
MYJoVE Corporation, Boston, United States - Massachusetts
Issue :
168
Pages :
e61968
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique
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