Pages tagged with "Trauma and Surgery"
- Chance of death after non-cardiac surgery reduced 2X by Vitamin D
- Vitamin D intervention increased by 20 percent the survival of critically ill patients- RCT
- Hospital or ICU death about twice as likely if low vitamin D
- 5 out of 6 children who died in pediatric critical care unit had low vitamin D
- Hospitalization consumes vitamin D in children
- Military and Vitamin D - many studies
- Hospital-Acquired Infections 3X more likely after Gastric Bypass if less than 30 ng vitamin D
- 96 percent vitamin D deficient – destitute asylum seekers and refugees in London
- More sepsis deaths in those entering hospital with low vitamin D
- Trauma – 86 percent had less than 30 ng of vitamin D, dark skinned even worse
- Stayed 3 days longer in geriatric acute care unit if low vitamin D – 2013
- US Army learning about benefits of vitamin D to trauma – Matthews
- Vitamin D needed after most spinal surgeries (and before as well) – 2013
- 1 month after plasma exchange vitamin D levels reduced by 40 percent
- Vitamin D in the ICU: anything new under the sun
- Deep sedation in ICU reduced cognition even a year later (needed more vitamin D)
- ICU reduces Vitamin D levels, deregulates PTH
- 3X more likely to die within 3 months of being in ICU for 2 days if less than 20 ng vitamin D
- 2X more likely to get hospital infection if low vitamin D (10 ng) when enter
- Chance of dying within 1 month of entering hospital is 45 percent higher if low vitamin D