UMMS researchers help develop novel tool to predict survival after penetrating brain injury. Using the new tool they developed, the SPIN-Score (Surviving Penetrating Injury to the Brain), two factors were by far the strongest predictors of survival: how well a person’s pupils responded to light and how well the person could move in response to stimuli, such as obeying commands or withdrawing from pain, which is called the motor Glasgow Coma Scale. The researchers found several other predictors of survival but say the first two were so strong that the rest improved the accuracy of their prediction only slightly.

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