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Definitions for the Terms Bacteremia, Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, Septic Shock, and Other Related Disorders

Wednesday May 14th, 2025Sunday March 8th, 2009 by Guillermo Firman

A 1992 American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine consensus panel defined the following terms which are relevant to the discussion of septic shock:

Infection: Infection is a microbial phenomenon characterized by an inflammatory response to the presence of microorganisms or the invasion of normally sterile host tissue by those organisms.

Bacteremia: Bacteremia refers to the presence of viable bacteria in the blood.

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome: Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is a widespread inflammatory response to a variety of severe clinical insults. This syndrome is clinically recognized by the presence of two or more of the following:

Diagnostic Criteria for Sepsis

Wednesday May 14th, 2025Sunday March 8th, 2009 by Guillermo Firman

Infection,^a documented or suspected, and some of the following:^b

Rochester Criteria for Identifying Febrile Infants at Low Risk for Serious Bacterial Infection

Wednesday May 14th, 2025Sunday March 8th, 2009 by Guillermo Firman

The Rochester criteria were developed to identify febrile infants aged 60 days or younger at low-risk of bacterial infection and do not include cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) testing.

CDC Diagnostic Criteria for Psittacosis (Ornithosis)

Wednesday May 14th, 2025Thursday March 5th, 2009 by Guillermo Firman

1996 Case Definition

Clinical description

An illness characterized by fever, chills, headache, photophobia, cough, and myalgia

CURB-65 and CRB-65 Severity Scores for Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)

Wednesday May 14th, 2025Thursday March 5th, 2009 by Guillermo Firman

CURB and CRB-65 scores can be used in the hospital and out-patients setting to assess pneumonia severity and the risk of death.

Diagnostic Criteria for Acute Pharyngitis

Wednesday May 14th, 2025Thursday March 5th, 2009 by Guillermo Firman

Adults

Clinical suspicion of streptococcal pharyngitis (e.g., fever, tonsillar swelling, exudate, enlarged/tender anterior cervical lymph nodes, absence of cough or coryza) with

History of rheumatic fever or
Documented household exposure or
Positive rapid strep screen

Diagnosis of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP)

Wednesday May 14th, 2025Thursday March 5th, 2009 by Guillermo Firman

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a frequent complication in cirrhotic patients with ascites. Diagnosis of SBP is established by a polymorphonuclear cell count in ascitic fluid > or =250 cells/mm(3).

Definition of Acute Otitis Media (AOM)

Wednesday May 14th, 2025Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 by Guillermo Firman

A diagnosis of AOM requires:

a history of acute onset of signs and symptoms,
the presence of middle-ear effusion (MEE), and
signs and symptoms of middle-ear inflammation.

Knaus Criteria for Multiple System Organ Failure (MSOF)

Wednesday May 14th, 2025Monday March 2nd, 2009 by Guillermo Firman

Multiple systems organ failure is said present when more than one of the system dysfunctions detected by test values exceeding the threshold values.

MASCC Index Score for Identifying Low-Risk Febrile Neutropenic Cancer Patients

Wednesday May 14th, 2025Saturday February 28th, 2009 by Guillermo Firman

Scoring system for risk of complications among febrile neutropenic patients, based on the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) predictive model.