Although there are several versions around the world with slight variations, the surgical sieve usually consist of the following types of process in the human body in any particular order:
- Congenital
- Acquired
- Vascular
- Infective
- Traumatic
- Autoimmune
- Metabolic
- Inflammatory
- Neurological
- Neoplastic
- Degenerative
- Environmental
- Unknown
A more extensive, and perhaps more concise mechanism of employing the surgical sieve is using the mnemonic MEDIC HAT PINE:
- Metabolic (conditions relating to metabolism, biochemistry, and the like)
- Endocrinological (conditions relating to the various secretory systems within the body)
- Degenerative (conditions relating to age-related destruction of tissue, or stress-related destruction of tissue)
- Inflammatory/Infective (conditions that primarily present in a way that involves the profane activation of the immune system)
- Congenital (conditions present at birth)
- Haematological (conditions relating to the blood system, in one way or another)
- Autoimmune (conditions relating to the inappropriate activation of the immune system, in one of many ways)
- Traumatic (conditions relating to a physical response between two or more objects)
- Psychological/Neurological (conditions relating to the nervous system, in one way or another – whether that be the CNS or the PNS)
- Idiopathic/iatrogenic (conditions without a known cause, or without a known cause outside of medical intervention)
- Neoplastic (conditions relating to cancers)
- Environmental (conditions relating to exposures, and dose-response relationships thereof)
Source: Surgical sieve – Wikipedia