Systemic inflammatory response syndrome
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In medicine, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is "a systemic inflammatory response to a variety of clinical insults, characterized by two or more of the following conditions":[1]
- fever >38° C (100.4° F) or hypothermia <36° C (96.8° F)
- tachycardia >90 beat/minute
- tachypnea >24 breaths/minute;
- leukocytosis >12,000 cells/cubic mm or 10% immature forms
"While usually related to infection, SIRS can also be associated with noninfectious insults such as trauma; burns; or pancreatitis. If infection is involved, a patient with SIRS is said to have sepsis."[1]
A minority of patients have positive blood cultures.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anonymous (2024), Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- ↑ Rangel-Frausto MS, Pittet D, Costigan M, Hwang T, Davis CS, Wenzel RP (1995). "The natural history of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). A prospective study.". JAMA 273 (2): 117-23. PMID 7799491.