Assignment of the pressure ulcer stage code should be. guided by clinical documentation. of the stage or. documentation of the terms found in the. Alphabetic. Index. For clinical terms describing the stage that are not. found in the Alphabetic Index, and there is no.
The World Health Organization (WHO) developed a classification system for MDS to standardize the definitions of the different subtypes. The 7 subtypes of MDS in this system include: Refractory anemia (RA). The primary sign of RA is anemia. White blood cell counts and platelet counts are healthy.
Recommendations were first. published as in Critical Care Medicine, Mar 2004. SIRS (Systemic inflammatory response syndrome): The clinical syndrome that results from a deregulated. inflammatory response or to a noninfectious insult. Sepsis: SIRS that is secondary to infection that has been diagnosed clinically. Positive cultures add to the. validity but are not required for the diagnosis. Severe Sepsis: Sepsis plus at least one sign of hypoperfusion or organ dysfunction (see below), that is new, and.