NUR 321 · Week 2 · NR-MS-057
Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)
SIRS was removed from the definition of sepsis and kept as a way of screening for it. That is not a demotion — it is a description of what it was always good at. SIRS tells you to look. It does not tell you what you have found.
Critical Care / SepsisVersion v2.0Reviewed 2026-07-22
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