Table 1.

Pediatric Cerebral Performance Category scale

Score	Category	Description
1	Normal	At age-appropriate level; school-age child attend regular school
2	Mild disability	Conscious, alert, able to interact at age-appropriate level; regular school but grades perhaps not age-appropriate, possibility of mild neurologic deficit
3	Moderate disability	Conscious, age-appropriate independent activities of daily living; special education classroom and/or learning deficit present
4	Severe disability	Conscious, dependent on others for daily support because of impaired brain function
5	Coma or vegetative state	Any degree of coma, unaware, even if awake in appearance, without interaction with the environment; no evidence of cortex function; possibility for some reflexive response, spontaneous eye-opening, sleep-wake cycles
6	Brain death/death	Brain death, death