Pages tagged with "Trauma and Surgery"
- Delirium 2.7 X more likely after hip fracture and low vitamin D
- ICU death 2X more likely if low Magnesium
- Hospitalized cats 8X more likely to die if low vitamin D (Vit. D helps humans too)
- Surgical outcomes are better for higher levels of Vitamin D – systematic review
- Acute respiratory distress – 100 percent of patients were vitamin D deficient
- Hospital induced delirium 2X more likely if low vitamin D
- 1 in 6 critically ill in India have high levels of vitamin D (100 ng)
- VITdAL-ICU - AMA RCT
- Longer mechanical ventilation times in ICU if lower vitamin D levels
- Burns, ulcers, and wounds healed by Vitamin D - many studies
- 1.5X increased infection, sepsis, and death if in ICU with low vitamin D - Meta-analysis
- Superbug (Clostridium difficile) Infections strongly associated with low vitamin D - many studies
- Vitamin D and Glutamine resulted in 2.6X reduction in trauma center mortality rate
- Vitamin D as a modifiable risk factor in critical illness - English and Portuguese
- Critically ill need vitamin D – how much and which test to use is TBD
- Acute Rehab. patients 2.3X more likely to have musculoskeletal pain if low vitamin D
- ICU survival increased with vitamin D single 540K IU loading dose - JAMA
- Pro-inflammatory cytokines cause the 74 percent drop in vitamin D after knee arthroplasty
- Mild Traumatic Brain Injury reduced by Vitamin D
- Critically ill patients with low vitamin D were 13X more likely to have a lot of mitrocondrial DNA in blood