Trauma and surgery

Created November 2012

Summary of Trauma-Surgery

* 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 (More on Trauma and Surgery info below){include}

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Large dose Vitamin D before surgery was found to help by 35 studies

Vitamin D is needed before many 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 Vitamin D Life categories
Such as loading dose 33, Mortality 23, Infant-Child 21 Intervention 19 Cardiovascular 13, Injection 13 in Sept 2022

High Dose Vitamin D in the (COVID) ICU - video May 2023

Dr. Eduardo Beltran

In this video, we shall talk about HLD (600K IU of vitamin D3) that was used in the intensive care unit (Brazil & Bolivia) used in patients who were diagnosed with SCV-2. Patients received their D3 via an NG tube while being intubated and connected to a ventilator. 26 out of 28 patients survived. The results speak for themselves.

Vitamin D Life pages with "Traumatic Brain Injury OR TBI" in title (21 as of July 2022)

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22 Category associations: Loading dose 35 Mortality 24 Cost savings 24 Infant-Child 23 Intervention 19 Cardiovascular 15 Injection 13 Cognitive 13 Omega-3 12 Immunity 10 Bone - Health 10 etc.

Skin 7 Gut 6 Youth 6 Intervention - nondaily 6 Deficiency 5 Falls and Fractures 5 Seniors 5 Thyroid and parathyroid 5 Magnesium 5 Pain - chronic 4 Osteoporosis 4 Sports 4 Skin - Dark 4 (as of Feb 2024)

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