Pages tagged with "Trauma and Surgery+Infection"

19 pages, most important first (overviews, then meta-analyses, then RCTs, then newest). Combine with another topic

• Superbug (Clostridium difficile) Infections strongly associated with low vitamin D - many studies
• Middle ear infection (Otitis Media) and Vitamin D – many studies
• 1.5X increased infection, sepsis, and death if in ICU with low vitamin D - Meta-analysis
• Candida infections in PICU reduced by Vitamin D in yogurt – RCT
• Surgical Site Infection (Cesarean) twice as likely if low Vitamin D
• Serious respiratory infection 33% more likely if low Vitamin D
• 400,000 IU of Vitamin D before surgery should cost-effectively reduce infection after knee replacement
• Vitamin D should reduce hospital-acquired infections – Grant
• Little risk of infection after surgery if have more than 50 ng of vitamin D - 2014
• Surgical Site Infection 4X more likely if low vitamin D
• Vitamin D might reduce suture infection when time-released from nano-structure suture
• Vitamin D's potential to reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections
• Hospital Acquired Infection, Mortality, Critically Ill and Vitamin D - 2017
• Low vitamin D at ICU admission is associated with cancer, infections, acute respiratory insufficiency and liver failure
• 2X more likely to get hospital infection if low vitamin D (10 ng) when enter
• Having less than 15 ng of vitamin D increased risk of hospitalization with infection by 2.8 times
• How to reduce hospital infections with vitamin D
• Staph infection reduced 50 percent when have more than 30 ng of vitamin D
• Hospital-Acquired Infections 3X more likely after Gastric Bypass if less than 30 ng vitamin D