Limited Utility of SIRS Criteria for Identifying Serious Infections in Febrile Young Infants

Limited Utility of SIRS Criteria for Identifying Serious Infections in Febrile Young Infants

(1) Background: Young infants have a high risk of serious infection. The Systematic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) criteria can be useful to identify both serious bacterial and viral infections. The aims of this study were to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the SIRS criteria for identi...

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Main Authors: Osamu Nomura, Yoshihiko Morikawa, Takaaki Mori, Yusuke Hagiwara, Hiroshi Sakakibara, Yuho Horikoshi, Nobuaki Inoue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-11-01
Series:Children
Subjects:
febrile young infants
sepsis
systematic inflammatory response syndrome
serious infection
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/8/11/1003

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