Pages tagged with "Trauma and Surgery"
- 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
- Low levels of vitamin D prior to spine surgery
- Off topic: Use of ICU in month before death has increased to almost 30 pcnt
- 20 percent of Critically ill in India had undetectable vitamin D, and 62 percent died
- Sepsis bacteria can be killed by blue as well as UV light
- Vitamin D decrease during inflammation is probably due to interferons
- Hypomagnesemia (low Magnesium) is very prevalent in ICU – 1999
- Almost 6X more likely to die after coronary bypass if vitamin D deficient
- Magnesium may be an important way to treat brain trauma
- Vitamin D aided progesterone in reducing traumatic brain injury – RCT