Abstract
The American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine developed a set of terms and definitions to define sepsis in a more precise manner. The term systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) was coined to describe the systemic response to a wide variety of insults and characterized by two or more of the following clinical manifestations:
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A body temperature of >38°C or <36°C
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A heart rate of >90 beats/min
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Tachypnea, as manifested by a respiratory rate of >20 breaths/min
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A WBC count of >12,000 cells/mm3, or <4000 cells/mm3 or the presence of >10% immature neutrophils
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Marik, P.E. (2001). Management of Septic Patients. In: Handbook of Evidence-Based Critical Care. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86943-3_42
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