Simple sepsis explaination

Hello,

I'm looking to get a handle on SIRS, sepsis, severe spesis, septic shock, DIC and MODS.

Right now, I have a fairly rudimentary understanding of SIRS and sepsis. My Googe fu is failing me today and I can't find simple, introductory level explanations of these concepts.

Anyone have links, documents, articles, videos or books they can recommend?

Thanks

Keith

Probably your best resource is going to be your patho book. Unfortunately, there is so much going on in the body when someone is suffering from sepsis that it is very difficult to make an explanation 'simple.'

If I had to sum up sepsis in one sentence I guess I would say: Sepsis occurs when an overwhelming infection prevents the adequate perfusion of organs due in large part to the body's immune response to the infection. (Is that a run on??) Anyway, that only scratches the surface of what sepsis is and does not address the s/s R/T sepsis. This website provides a very basic reference for what sepsis is:

Sepsis - PubMed Health