You respond to a home where a 25-year-old woman is lying in bed. She is semiconscious but opens her eyes when you speak to her, and is lethargic. How do you rate her on the AVPU scale?

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Isabelle Simmons

7 May, 15:18

You respond to a home where a 25-year-old woman is lying in bed. She is semiconscious but opens her eyes when you speak to her, and is lethargic. How do you rate her on the AVPU scale?

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Elvis Whitehead · Answer 1

Responsive to verbal stimulus

Explanation:

Responsive to verbal stimuli;. To be considered responsive to verbal stimulus, the patient may not be alert but will open her eyes when we speak to her as AVPU scale is the method of assessing the level of consciousness whether the patient is alert and awake. Since the acronyms AVPU its states

A = the patient is Awake

V = the patient responds to a Verbal stimulus

P = the patient responds to a Pain stimulus

U = the patient is Unresponsive to stimulus

The woman in this case is semiconscious but open her eyes when we speak it means she is at level V which means responsive to verbal stimulus