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 |
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.