SudaMediCa, The Sudanese Medical Community

 Oxygen therapy  What is meaning of O2 therapy  Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen at a concentration of pressure greater than that found in the environmental atmosphere  The air that we breathe contain approximately 21% oxygen  the heart relies on oxygen to pump blood.  What is me...

 Ebola Virus Disease  (Ebola hemorrhagic fever)  EPIDEMIOLOGY  It is a severe, often fatal, illness  It affects humans and nonhuman primates. (e.g. fruit bats, monkeys and apes)  Death rate is up to 90%  First appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks: 1. Congo (near Ebola river) 2. Suda...

Sepsis and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome: Definitions, epidemiology, and prognosis INTRODUCTION — Sepsis is a clinical syndrome that complicates severe infection. It is characterized by the cardinal signs of inflammation (vasodilation, leukocyte accumulation, increased microvascular pe...