A debate on the subject "Are SIRS and MODS important entities in the clinical evaluation of patients?" The con position

• Published in: Shock (Augusta, Ga.) Vol. 14; no. 6; p. 590
• Main Author: Baue, A E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.2000
• Subjects: Critical Care; Critical Illness; Humans; Multiple Organ Failure - diagnosis; Multiple Organ Failure - therapy; Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome - diagnosis; Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome - therapy

SIRS, MODS, and MOF are not diseases or even syndromes. They are simply clinical descriptors of people that are sick. They are symptoms and signs of various stages of illness progressing to death in the modern organ supporting ICU. They are catchy, popular acronyms but they cannot be treated specifi...