Pages tagged with "Trauma and Surgery"
- Surgeries often deplete Vitamin D - 300,000 IU resulted in little response
- 10 fewer days of ICU Mechanical Ventilation 300,000 IU injection of vitamin D – RCT
- Vitamin D before surgery often helps (Thyroidectomy in this case)
- Surgical Site Infection 4X more likely if low vitamin D
- Hospitalization costs reduced ~3,000 dollars when intravenous nutrition was augmented with Omega-3
- Spinal Cord Injury treated by Vitamin D progesterone combination, etc. – review of trials
- Septic children have low Vitamin D (54 studies, ignored Vitamin D Receptor) – meta-analysis
- Vitamin D being used by sports teams to avoid injuries and improve performance – WSJ
- Intensive Care (ICU) helped by Vitamin D – review of past and on-going studies
- Following brain surgery Vitamin D injections did not raise blood levels much – RCT
- ICU adults getting 540,000 IU of Vitamin D were 2X more likely to be alive 30 days later – RCT
- Vitamin B12 treats Traumatic Brain Injury in mice
- Traumatic Brain Injuries routinely treated by Vitamin D, Omega-3, Progesterone and Gluatmine
- Traumatic Brain Injury recovery helped by injection of 100,000 IU of Vitamin D
- Vitamin D levels not associated with days in ICU (both short and long term residents had low vitamin D)
- Orthopaedic surgeries need Vitamin D – many studies
- Burns - will 200,000 IU of vitamin D decrease hospital stay - RCT 2021
- Candida infections in PICU reduced by Vitamin D in yogurt – RCT
- Delirium 24 percent more likely for each 2.5 ng lower vitamin D (313,000 patients)
- 1,000 IU of vitamin D daily did not help ICU much (no surprise)
