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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 17.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2020 Oct 23;25(4):101146. doi: 10.1016/j.siny.2020.101146

Table 1.

Criteria for systemic inflammatory response syndromea.

Two or more of the following criteria should be met:
• Temperature >38 °C or <36 °C
• Heart rate >90 beats/min
• Respiratory rate >20 breaths/min or PaCO2 <32 mm Hg
• White blood cell count >12,000/mm3 or <4000/mm3 or >10% immature bands
a

Modified with permission from American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference: definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis. Crit Care Med. 1992; 20:864–74.