In a recent discussion with our team, I was made aware of an issue in tracking patients through the SSC database regarding the SIRS criteria.
If you refer to the 2001 consensus definitions for sepsis and the 2012 SSC guidelines which mimic the same, there is no longer a 2/4 SIRS criteria in place as a requirement for the diagnosis of sepsis. Can anyone from the SSC comment as to why patients are excluded from being entered when they lack these findings? The tool has added “acutely altered mental status” and “hyperglycemia in absence of diabetes” which are appropriate to include, but this form is not in-line with their own guidelines… Any input? Thanks Ryan Arnold, MD Christiana Care Health System _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
