CRP and systemic inflammatory response syndrome: When patient groups were stratified for survival i.e. S vs DNS (Figure 2) small differences were seen for the SIRS and sepsis S and DNS groups, some of which approached significance/were significant (highlighted in bold); SIRS Day1 [lymphocytes (p = 0.0931), CRP (p = 0.1286)], Day2 (white blood cells (p = 0.0885), neutrophils (p = 0.1206) and basophils (p = 0.033) and Day5 (white blood cells (p = 0.0599), neutrophils (p = 0.0879) and lymphocytes (p = 0.1803).