J Trauma

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• J Trauma · Oct 1996

  "Sepsis/SIRS," physiologic classification, severity stratification, relation to cytokine elaboration and outcome prediction in posttrauma critical illness.

  To develop a quantitative severity stratification within the framework of a Physiologic State Classification (PSSC) system that can be applied to critically ill post-trauma patients with "sepsis/SIRS" and to relate PSSC to the nature of the plasma cytokine response. ⋯ PSSC allows classification of the physiologic and cytokine mediator response to trauma and permits stratification of severity in posttrauma critical illness.

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