Check the glucose, measure the brain — altered conscious state in children

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This is one MedVellum formative structured clinical encounter. The scoring, prompts and performance descriptions are educational feedback tools. They are not an official college station, timing, mark allocation, pass score or reproduced examination format. The encounter assesses first-impression recognition, leadership of resuscitation, securing the airway, screening with AVPU and converting to an age-adapted Glasgow Coma Scale, the bedside glucose and DEFG, treating an ongoing convulsion at five minutes, recognising raised intracranial pressure, communication, reassessment, escalation and safe transfer of information. ^{[1] [2]}