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01.02.2008 | Editorial
Dear SIRS, the concept of “alarmins” makes a lot of sense!
verfasst von:
Jérôme Pugin
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2008
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Excerpt
The late Roger Bone [
1,
2] coined the term “systemic inflammatory response syndrome, SIRS” more than 15 years ago to describe a clinical entity highly prevalent in our intensive care units (ICUs) [
3,
4]. Patients with SIRS usually present with fever and leukocytosis in addition to tachychardia and tachypnea. Sepsis was defined as patients with a documented bacterial infection and at least two SIRS criteria [
5]. It was also recognized by Bone and others that many patients without infection have SIRS, later defined as “aseptic SIRS” or “sterile shock” [
6,
7]. Examples of such conditions include acute respiratory distress syndrome, trauma, pancreatitis, major surgery, and ischemia-reperfusion injury in patients recovering from shock. …