You respond to a home where a 25-year-old woman is lying in bed. She is semi conscious 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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Prince Richardson

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15 April, 18:38

You respond to a home where a 25-year-old woman is lying in bed. She is semi conscious 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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Michelle Moore · Answer 1

The AVPU rating of the woman according to her symptoms would be Verbally Resonsive.

Explanation:

The AVPU scale is a scale used by the health care professionals to see the level of consciousness of a patient. The AVPU is an acronym for the levels that are assessed in the scale which include Alert, Verbal, Pain, Unresponsive.

The woman in question is not unresponsive and is alert as she acknowledges the presence of the person around her. However she cannot move physically and is in pain due to it, neither does she speak herself.

This would mean she is verbally responsive on the scale.