Pages tagged with "Trauma and Surgery"
- Vitamin D should reduce hospital-acquired infections – Grant
- ICU Vitamin D supplementation not help (study ignored level achieved) – meta-analysis 2022
- Vitamin D is needed before many surgeries – many studies and RCTs
- Surgeries more successful if high vitamin D (tympanic membrane in this case)
- Vitamin D might help critically ill patients (if enough is given quickly)
- More post-operative pain if low vitamin D before ( 2.4 X for Thoracoscopic)
- Doctors Still Struggle to Diagnose a Condition That Kills More Than Stroke (Sepsis, Vitamin D helps)
- Surgeries to re-establish blood in brain, heart, etc. are far more successful with high Vitamin D levels
- Rotator cuff repair treatments – all but Vitamin D need a prescription
- Sepsis patients 2.7 X more likely to die if low Vitamin D
- Traumatic Brain Injury treated by Vitamin D - many studies
- 40% less likely to recover from TBI with Intracranial Injury if low vitamin D
- Vitamin D and the Critically Ill - meta-analysis
- 3X less muscle atrophy after ACL surgery if more than 40 ng of vitamin D
- Half as much AFIB after bypass if 600,000 IU of vitamin D before surgery – RCT
- Delirium or cognitive problems after surgery 1.5X more likely if low vitamin D –meta-analysis
- Vitamin D levels crash after various surgeries (cardiac in this case)
- Bariatric Surgery lowered risk of severe liver disease (not a surprise)
- 2.4 X fewer burn complications if have more than 20 ng of Vitamin D
- Oral Vitamin D much better than injection (after Knee Arthroplasty in this case)