Pages tagged with "Trauma and surgery"
- 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
- No association of cardiac surgery outcome with vitamin D level – they were all low
- One issue of Inflammation and Allergy-Drug Targets has vitamin D items behind paywall
- Congenital heart surgery dropped vitamin D levels by 40 percent
- More sepsis deaths when active vitamin D (Calcitrol) was low
- Middle ear infection (Otitis Media) and Vitamin D – many studies