Pages tagged with "Trauma and surgery"
- Infant in ICU much more likely to die if low vitamin D
- Surgical ICU – 2.7 X more likely go home if OK vitamin D
- Risk of death within 90 days of ICU decreased by 16 percent for 1 nanogram extra vitamin D
- Critically ill injected with 300,000 IU of vitamin D, 3X more likely to die if PTH did not respond - RCT
- Omega-3 should be cost-effective to reduce days in ICU – simulation
- Postoperative adhesions reduced in rats supplemented with vitamin D – RCT
- ICU death 2X more likely if low vitamin D (sensitivity and selectivity chart)
- ICU patients with low Magnesium were 2X more likely to die
- Delirium 2.7 X more likely after hip fracture and low vitamin D
- ICU death 2X more likely if low Magnesium
- Hospitalized cats 8X more likely to die if low vitamin D (Vit. D helps humans too)
- Surgical outcomes are better for higher levels of Vitamin D – systematic review
- Acute respiratory distress – 100 percent of patients were vitamin D deficient
- Hospital induced delirium 2X more likely if low vitamin D
- 1 in 6 critically ill in India have high levels of vitamin D (100 ng)
- VITdAL-ICU - AMA RCT
- Longer mechanical ventilation times in ICU if lower vitamin D levels
- Burns, ulcers, and wounds healed by Vitamin D - many studies
- 1.5X increased infection, sepsis, and death if in ICU with low vitamin D - Meta-analysis
- Superbug (Clostridium difficile) Infections strongly associated with low vitamin D - many studies