History
The historical origin of the concept of MODS is as follows. For many years, some patients were loosely classified as having sepsis or the sepsis syndrome. In more recent years, these concepts have been refined, so that there are specific definitions of sepsis, and two new concepts have also been developed: the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).
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