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Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome

"Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A systemic inflammatory response to a variety of clinical insults, characterized by two or more of the following conditions: (1) fever >38 degrees C or HYPOTHERMIA <36 degrees C; (2) TACHYCARDIA >90 beat/minute; (3) tachypnea >24 breaths/minute; (4) 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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 36 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2022
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