Pages tagged with "Trauma and Surgery - Hospital"

• U.S. healthcare has been the leading job creator for 4 years
• Each use of Remdesivir generates thousands of dollars of bonuses to US hospitals
• Trivial difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated for cases, hospitalizations, and death
• 10,000 COVID infections: Hospitalization 2.4X more likely if low vitamin D
• Merck’s antiviral – FDA OKed Dec 2021, sold pills worth 5 billion dollars, found to not reduce hospitalization
• Autumn Covid wave officially kicks off: Virus hospital admissions in England jump by half in a week
• COVID in hospital fought by Vitamin D (25,000 IU daily for 4 days, then 25K weekly) - RCT
• CDC says 44 percent of people hospitalized with COVID had third dose or booster
• Dengue virus: 3X increase in hospitalization and deaths in Vietnam
• Some COVID hospitalizations are due to poor Vitamin D genes (Binding Protein in this commentary)
• COVID hospital deaths reduced 2X by 8 days of UVB – pilot RCT
• Hospital patients with Vitamin D Deficiency: estimates per 100 vary from 59 to 91 (Nepal)
• COVID Ventilation 2X less likely if 200,000 IU of Vitamin D when enter hospital
• Loading dose of Vitamin D for patients hospitalized with COVID (140,000 IU) – RCT completed 2021
• Poor genes (DBP, CYP24A1, CYP2R, etc.) restrict Vitamin D to cells, increasing COVID hospitalization
• Long-COVID: often had not been hospitalized
• 21 fewer days in hospital with ARDS (COVID) if 10,000 IU of Vitamin D daily after enter hospital – RCT April, 2022
• Excess Magnesium is bad for health (COVID hospital days in this case)
• Nutritional supplementation during COVID hospitalization helped - RCT
• 66 percent of COVID Omicron patients in Ontario hospitals are vaccinated