Pages tagged with "Trauma and surgery"
- 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
- Hardly any children had enough vitamin D before bone surgery
- Virtually all Bariatric Surgery patients vitamin D deficient – should we routinely supplement
- Inflammation or surgery or heart attack decreases measured vitamin D levels
- Calcium and vitamin D supplements after hip fracture reduced death rate by 25%
- ICU time is 2X more likely to be longer than 2 days if vitamin D less than 20 ng
- Virtually all veterans in ICU had vitamin D less than 32 ng
- Critically ill 70 percent more likely to die if vitamin D less than 15ng