Pages tagged with "Trauma and Surgery"
- Septic shock and low vitamin D in children
- ICU surgical patients with low vitamin D stayed longer and had more sepsis
- Vitamin D levels low both before and after organ transplant
- Survive surgery 3X better if overweight – Hypothesis - due to vitamin D released from fat
- Spinal fusion patients often low on vitamin D
- CV event 56 percent more likely after vascular surgery if low on vitamin D
- ICU needs vitamin D - Vitamin D Council
- Vitamin D reduces lung damage due to radiotherapy
- Fat soluable vitamins decrease quickly after trauma
- Critical Care patients with less than 15 ng vitamin D were 85 percent more likely to die
- Active form of vitamin D (calcitriol) cut in half the fractures following organ transplant – meta-analysis
- Staph infection reduced 50 percent when have more than 30 ng of vitamin D
- Higher vitamin D helps regain muscle strength after knee surgery
- Stem Cell Transplants consume vitamin D
- Sepsis is both prevented and treated by Vitamin D - many studies
- Heart transplant 19 ng vitamin D vs liver transplant 13 ng
- MRSA inpatient cost 2X higher if less than 20 ng vitamin D
- Knee surgery reduced vitamin D by 40 percent in 2 days
- Should stock-up on vitamin D if having surgery due to fragile bones
- 540000 IU before ICU raised vitamin D by 25 ng in 2 days