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DEFINITION:

Date that the individual with brain injury is able to follow simple motor commands. The individual has the ability to follow simple motor commands if: 1) follows simple motor commands accurately at least two out of two times within a 24-hour period, or 2) GCS motor component = 6 (follows simple motor commands), two out of two times within a 24-hour period.

CODE:

MM/DD/YYYY= Date patient able to follow simple motor commands
07/07/7777 = Patient never able to follow simple motor commands
09/09/9999 = Unknown

NOTE:

A patient with severe motor or sensory impairment (i.e. spinal cord injury, locked in syndrome) must demonstrate some ability to follow eye commands such as close your eyes, look to the right or left, blink eyes. If patient is able to follow commands, then following surgery he/she can not follow commands for a period of time, use the first date the patient was able to follow commands.

If the two assessments of ability to follow simple motor commands within a 24-hour period fall across two dates, use the second date.

If patient was always able to follow simple motor commands, code date of admission to emergency room.

*The purpose of this variable is to establish the date of emergence from coma.

EXAMPLE:

Patient first followed simple motor commands accurately at 9 a.m. on November 15, 1990 and again at 3 p.m. on the same day.

11/15/1990