cerebral performance category scale

cerebral performance category scale

Emergency medicine A scale that grades Pt response to CPR, on a scale of 1 to 5. See Glasgow coma scale, Harvard criteria.

Cerebral performance category scale

CPC 1

A return to normal cerebral function and normal living

CPC 2

Cerebral disbility but sufficient function for independent activities of daily living

CPC 3

Severe disability, limited cognition, inability to carry out independent existence

CPC 4

Coma

CPC 5

Brain death

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