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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2003, Vol. 91, No. 5 756
© 2003 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Correspondence

SIRS—a syndrome, disease or a chef d’oeuvre?

R. Taneja1, J. L. C. Swanevelder2 and M. Schupp2

1 London, Canada 2 Leicester, UK

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Editor—I read the case report by Schupp and colleagues1 with interest and would like to commend them for their heroic effort. However, I want to make a comment. The authors have entitled their report ‘Postoperative ECMO for severe intraoperative SIRS 10 hrs after multiple trauma’. Having made such claims a few times in the text as well, they seem to misunderstand the concept of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS).

When the term SIRS was coined in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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