Skip to main content
Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Table 1 Clinical severity score characteristics

From: The metabolic phenotype of rodent sepsis: cause for concern?

Characteristic

Scoring range

Hunched

0-1

Bloated

0-1

Conjunctival injection/mucky eyes

0-1

Piloerection (rats only)

0-1

Lack of movement

0-2

Lack of alertness

0-2

  1. Scoring denotes absence (0), presence (1) or marked presence (2). Total score of 0 to 3 denotes mild sepsis and ≥4 severe sepsis.
Back to article page