title: [Evaluation of severity for systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis].
abstract: Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is defined by four simple clinical and laboratory indices and now widely accepted for diagnosing sepsis. However, since the SIRS criteria include patients with a wide range of severity, other parameters are necessary to evaluate the severity and outcome of the patients. In this review, we discussed several methods to estimate the severity of SIRS, such as number of positive SIRS indices among four, duration of SIRS, plasma IL-6 and procalcitonin, etc.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kurihara
authors.forename: Seitaro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujishima
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Aikawa
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D018805:Sepsis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D018746:Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology*