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| Sedation score | Clinical response |
| 1 | Fully awake |
| 2 | Drowsy but awakens spontaneously |
| 3 | Asleep but arouses and responds appropriately to simple verbal commands |
| 4 | Asleep, unresponsive to commands, but arouses to shoulder tap or loud verbal stimulus |
| 5 | Asleep and only responds to firm facial tap and loud verbal stimulus |
| 6 | Asleep and unresponsive to both firm facial tap and loud verbal stimulus |
