The Crucial Role of Vitamin D in Physical and Mental Health
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Vitamin D and ICU - Oct 2023
The Sunlight-Vitamin D Connection: Implications for Patient Outcomes in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Sources and References
- 1 Cureus October 10, 2023; 15(10): e46819
- 2 Cureus October 10, 2023; 15(10): e46819, Introduction & Background, and Factors Influencing Sunlight-Mediated Vitamin D Synthesis
- 3 Cureus October 10, 2023; 15(10): e46819, Clinical implications of vitamin D in SICU patients
- 4 Cureus October 10, 2023; 15(10): e46819, Conclusions
VitaminDWiki – Trauma and surgery category contains
Trauma and Surgery category hasLarge dose Vitamin D before surgery was found to help by 35 studies
Vitamin D is needed before most surgeries – many studies and RCTs
4.8 X more likely to die within 28 days of ICU if low Vitamin D - Jan 2024
Sepsis is both prevented and treated by Vitamin D - many studies
Thyroidectomy and Vitamin D - many studies
Orthopaedic surgeries need Vitamin D – many studies
Cancer - After diagnosis chemotherapy
TBI OR "Traumatic Brain Injury - 21 in title as of Sept 2022
Superbug (Clostridium difficile) Infections strongly associated with low vitamin D - many studies
Glutamine and Omega-3 have also been proven to help several traumas/surgeries
Note: Vitamin D also prevents the need for various surgeries and Omega-3 prevents many concussions/TBI
Trauma and Surgery is associated with 22 other VitaminDWiki categories
Such as loading dose 33, Mortality 23, Infant-Child 21 Intervention 19 Cardiovascular 13, Injection 13 in Sept 2022
Did you know?
- You can easily improve outcomes of many planned surgeries by increasing vitamin D ahead of time
- Cancer surgery is the only known exception - extra Vitamin D is OK only if doctor reduces the chemo doses
- A loading dose of Vitamin D also improves unplanned hospital admissions
- Improvements include
- Shorter recovery time
- Shorter ICU time
- Reduced deaths – in hospital, next month, next year
- Reduced Sepsis = blood poisoning = infection
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