Pages tagged with "Trauma and surgery"
- Lung transplant survival 4X more likely if take 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily
- Problems following surgery if low Vitamin D (Cardiac in this case)
- TBI reduced 5X by 300,000 IU of vitamin D (injection) – RCT
- Following sleeve gastrectomy surgery, 3,000 IU of vitamin D daily for a year helped – RCT
- 5,000 ICU patients have benefited from Vitamin D – need more data
- 3X reduced mortality in one metabolic cluster of ICU patients by high-dose Vitamin D
- Give ICU children a bolus dose of 10,000 IU of vitamin D per kg – RCT underway
- ICU - need Vitamin D ASAP - interview and transcript, Matthews
- Surgery complications cut in half by 300,000 IU of vitamin D 2 weeks before (hip and knee) – RCT
- Spinal TB surgery now includes Vitamin D as the standard of care (5,000 IU daily)
- After bariatric surgery all of the fat-soluble vitamins are lacking (Note: other forms of the vitamins are much better) – meta-analysis
- ICU patients typically benefit from 300-500,000 IU of Vitamin D - many studies
- Sepsis (with mechanical ventilation) treated by 5days of 50,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT
- Rotator cuff and Vitamin D - several studies
- Surgical Site Infection (Cesarean) twice as likely if low Vitamin D
- Following Bariatric surgery, weekly 50,000 IU of standard Vitamin D is not enough
- 4.8 X more likely to die within 28 days of ICU if low Vitamin D
- Vitamin D supplementation helps after obesity treatment
- Critically ill trauma patients - virtually none had even 30 ng of Vitamin D
- Sepsis mortality greater in Black than White children (low vitamin D)
