"AVPU" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. (emergency medicine) Initialism of alert, voice, pain, unresponsive: a list of points used by medical workers to assess and record a patient's responsiveness and level of consciousness. Wikipedia link: AVPU Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: alert (extra: a list of points used by medical workers to assess and record a patient's responsiveness and level of consciousness), voice (extra: a list of points used by medical workers to assess and record a patient's responsiveness and level of consciousness), pain (extra: a list of points used by medical workers to assess and record a patient's responsiveness and level of consciousness), unresponsive (extra: a list of points used by medical workers to assess and record a patient's responsiveness and level of consciousness) Categories (topical): Emergency medicine Related terms: GCS (english: Glasgow Coma Scale) Translations (system to assess level of consciousness): AVPU-asteikko (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-AVPU-en-noun-4TWCKuiz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: emergency-medicine, medicine, sciences

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