***cross-posted, please feel free to forward***
Here's the summary; unfortunately, I'm only fluent in English, so I
can't verify the accuracy of the language translations. However, the
links below should provide one or both of these scales in many
languages, not just Spanish and French. You'll just need to wade
through the PubMed citations. Many thanks to those who contributed, the
links are below.
Here's the search strategy I used. Either click on the link below,
paste the link into your browser, or paste in this strategy into the
PubMed search box. I selected every language except English-I didn't
"NOT" out the English results because then I'd miss the bilingual
articles. You'll get about 781 articles, but since these scales are so
short, probably a number of the articles included it in their language;
there are hits in French (which Haitians can read), Lithuanian, Spanish,
Turkish, German, Russian, and much more:
(("glasgow coma scale"[MeSH Terms] OR Glasgow Coma Scale[Text Word]) OR
((glasgow[All Fields] OR glascow[All Fields]) AND ("coma"[MeSH Terms] OR
coma[Text Word])) OR (rancho[All Fields] AND los[All Fields] AND
amigos[All Fields]) OR (ranchos[All Fields] AND los[All Fields] AND
amigos[All Fields])) AND (French[lang] OR German[lang] OR Italian[lang]
OR Japanese[lang] OR Russian[lang] OR Spanish[lang] OR Afrikaans[lang]
OR Albanian[lang] OR Arabic[lang] OR Armenian[lang] OR Azerbaijani[lang]
OR Bosnian[lang] OR Bulgarian[lang] OR Catalan[lang] OR Chinese[lang] OR
Croatian[lang] OR Czech[lang] OR Danish[lang] OR Dutch[lang] OR
Esperanto[lang] OR Estonian[lang] OR Finnish[lang] OR Georgian[lang] OR
Greek, Modern[lang] OR Hebrew[lang] OR Hindi[lang] OR Hungarian[lang] OR
Icelandic[lang] OR Indonesian[lang] OR Kinyarwanda[lang] OR Korean[lang]
OR Latin[lang] OR Latvian[lang] OR Lithuanian[lang] OR Macedonian[lang]
OR Malay[lang] OR Malayalam[lang] OR Maori[lang] OR Multiple
languages[lang] OR Norwegian[lang] OR Persian[lang] OR Polish[lang] OR
Portuguese[lang] OR Pushto[lang] OR Romanian[lang] OR Sanskrit[lang] OR
Scottish gaelic[lang] OR Serbian[lang] OR Slovak[lang] OR
Slovenian[lang] OR Swedish[lang] OR Thai[lang] OR Turkish[lang] OR
Ukrainian[lang] OR Undetermined[lang] OR Vietnamese[lang])
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&d
etails_term=%28%28%22glasgow%20coma%20scale%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20
Glasgow%20Coma%20Scale%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20OR%20%28%28glasgow%5BAll%20
Fields%5D%20OR%20glascow%5BAll%20Fields%5D%29%20AND%20%28%22coma%22%5BMe
SH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20coma%5BText%20Word%5D%29%29%20OR%20%28rancho%5BAll%
20Fields%5D%20AND%20los%5BAll%20Fields%5D%20AND%20amigos%5BAll%20Fields%
5D%29%20OR%20%28ranchos%5BAll%20Fields%5D%20AND%20los%5BAll%20Fields%5D%
20AND%20amigos%5BAll%20Fields%5D%29%29%20AND%20%28French%5Blang%5D%20OR%
20German%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Italian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Japanese%5Blang%5D%20
OR%20Russian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Spanish%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Afrikaans%5Blang%
5D%20OR%20Albanian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Arabic%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Armenian%5Bl
ang%5D%20OR%20Azerbaijani%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Bosnian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Bulg
arian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Catalan%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Chinese%5Blang%5D%20OR%2
0Croatian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Czech%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Danish%5Blang%5D%20OR%
20Dutch%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Esperanto%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Estonian%5Blang%5D%2
0OR%20Finnish%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Georgian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Greek%2C%20Mode
rn%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Hebrew%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Hindi%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Hunga
rian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Icelandic%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Indonesian%5Blang%5D%20
OR%20Kinyarwanda%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Korean%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Latin%5Blang%5
D%20OR%20Latvian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Lithuanian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Macedonian
%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Malay%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Malayalam%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Maor
i%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Multiple%20languages%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Norwegian%5Blan
g%5D%20OR%20Persian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Polish%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Portuguese%
5Blang%5D%20OR%20Pushto%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Romanian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Sansk
rit%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Scottish%20gaelic%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Serbian%5Blang%5
D%20OR%20Slovak%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Slovenian%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Swedish%5Bla
ng%5D%20OR%20Thai%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Turkish%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Ukrainian%5B
lang%5D%20OR%20Undetermined%5Blang%5D%20OR%20Vietnamese%5Blang%5D%29
*******
Anyway, the coma scale may have been developed during an era when
Glascow was in more common usage, and therefore the name would be
correct, and probably now is referred to using both spellings (Glasgow
and Glascow).
http://www.sld.cu/sitios/neuroc/temas.php?idv=1715
I know it is Wikipedia!) - but they do have it translated in 15
different languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Coma_Scale -
you just need to click on the language on the left.
If you go to Google >> advanced settings and choose Spanish, and search
for "Glasgow Coma" as a phrase you get (as the top three hits):
www.neuropsicol.org/Protocol/glasgow.pdf
www.uninet.edu/neuroc2002/papers/TL-ValorECG.htm
and in Wikipedia:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escala_Glasgow
Here's the GCS
http://www.neuropsicol.org/Protocol/glasgow.pdf
Both are at
http://paginas.terra.com.br/saude/fisioajuda/escalas%20neuromotoras.htm
For the Rancho Los Amigos scale try contacting their Language & Cultural
Center at the hospital: [log in to unmask] (I can't remember if I contacted
them or not; please give them a try. Tanya)
For Haitian Creole the contact below might be helpful as they deal with
many patients that speak this language/dialect.
Loretta Saint-Louis, Ph.D., Director of Multilingual Interpreting,
Cambridge Health Alliance, Tel. 617-591-6933, Email:
[log in to unmask] This is Dr. Saint-Louis's response to my
email:
I don't think we have them. However, we have an internal translation
service that accepts outside customers, and Haitian Creole is one of our
languages of expertise. Donald Wood is our Translation Coordinator. He
is available at 617-591-6819 or at [log in to unmask]
If you Google this as "Escala de Glasgow" or "Escala coma Glasgow" you
should get plenty of hits in Spanish. Eg
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escala_de_glasgow
For - "niveles cognoscitivos de la escala del Rancho los amigos"
http://www.nchmd.org/default.aspx?id=15&ref=P04242 or
http://www.uchospitals.edu/online-library/content=S04242
Rancho Los Amigos --Spanish
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/UVAHealth/adult_pmr_sp/braininj.cfm
http://www.terapia-ocupacional.com/articulos/Guia_TCE.shtml
Glasgow--Spanish
http://www.uihealthcare.com/topics/medicaldepartments/neurosurgery/brain
injury/spanish/31apendice.html
Both Glasgow and Rancho Los Amigos--Spanish
http://www.sdbif.org/Guide/SDBIF_Guide_Spa.pdf
http://www.neuroars.es/6%20EVALUACION%20DE%20LA%20SEVERIDAD.html
*******
Take care,
Tanya
Tanya Feddern-Bekcan, MLIS, AHIP, MOT, OTR/L
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From: Feddern, Tanya
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Subject: Rancho Los Amigos & Glascow Coma Scales in Spanish & other
languages?
***cross-posted***
Hello, everyone. Could someone please email me URLs and/or citations
for these two coma scales in any non-English language (Spanish & Haitian
Creole would be especially appreciated):
Rancho Los Amigos
Glasgow Coma Scale (may be misspelled as Glascow Coma Scale)
I've searched Google and called the Brain Injury Association of America
information hotline, but still no luck. (I know it's out there in
Spanish, at least, because I mentioned it in a post years ago.)
I will summarize to the lists-please feel free to forward this post.
Thank you,
Tanya
Tanya Feddern-Bekcan, MLIS, AHIP, MOT, OTR/L
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<http://www.geocities.com/nqiya/libraryarticles.html>
305.243.6648 - [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> -
305.325.9670 (fax)
EBM Theme Co-Director & Reference and Education Librarian
Louis Calder Memorial Library - University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine
