22:35 Mar 7 

@Sarah..thanks for the information:)

16:49 Mar 7 

Hi all,

Thanks so much for your help - a colleague suggested this, which I chose in the end:

pirogenemia
http://tinyurl.com/848hzne
(an Arg.-ES paper on diabetic foot infections)

quotes a classification of severity of such infections by Lipsky et al. Severe infection ="Signos de inestabilidad hemodinamica o metabolica
(fiebre, pirogenemia, taquicardia, hipotension, confusion,
vomitos, leucocitosis, acidosis metabolica, hiperglucemia
marcada, uremia)."


The original paper has:

Lipsky: "severe – systemic toxicity / systemic response to infection and metabolic instability (e.g. fever, chills, tachycardia, hypotension, confusion, vomiting, leukocytosis, acidosis, severe hyperglycemia, or azotemia"