300,000 IU Vitamin D injection before brain tumor surgery – RCT to finish

Clinical Trial Entry: Therapeutic Benefit of Preoperative Supplemental Vitamin D in Patients Undergoing Brain Tumor Surgery

Results: Following brain surgery Vitamin D injections did not raise blood levels much – RCT June 2019

Not clear when the vitamin D injection will be given – hopefully >3 days before the surgery

60 patients – including the 30 controls who will not get any Vitamin D

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Expects that there will be very few RCT’s like this in the future.

It will become morally wrong to not give Vitamin D to all surgery, ICU, etc. patients

• Vitamin D and critically ill patients (book chapter) – April 2017

• Sepsis is both prevented and treated by Vitamin D - many studies both RCTs and meta-analyses

• Vitamin D is Way More Important in Critical Care Than We May Have Recognized - June 2017

• Vitamin D loading doses reduce ICU mortality by 30 percent – meta-analysis April 2017

• Surgical ICU – 2.7 X more likely go home if OK vitamin D – Sept 2015

• 1 in 6 critically ill taking lots of vitamin D (100 ng) – March 2015 India

• Hospital ICU added high dose vitamin D - malpractice lawsuit costs dropped from 26 million dollars to ZERO - Oct 2016

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