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AVPU
• A – alert meaning the patient is awake
– “A” is not meant to indicate orientation; just level of
awakeness
• V – responding to verbal stimuli only
– Any response including fluttering of eyelids is a positive
response to calling the patient’s name or asking a command
• P – responding to “pain”
– Could also indicate responding to tactile stimuli so do not
always need to inflict a painful stimuli
– Any response including fluttering of eyelids or any body
twitch is a positive response
• U – unresponsive
– Patient is flaccid with no responses at all