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A Study of Vitamin D Level in Critically Ill Patients and Effect of Supplementation on Clinical Outcome.

Subhransu Sekhar Padhy, Deepak Malviya, Mamta Harjai, Manoj Tripathi, Pravin Kumar Das, Shivani Rastogi

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Subhransu Sekhar PadhyDepartment of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Deepak MalviyaDepartment of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Mamta HarjaiDepartment of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Manoj TripathiDepartment of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Pravin Kumar DasDepartment of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Shivani RastogiDepartment of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences · IN

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Abstract

backgroundSupplementation of Vitamin-D in Vitamin-D deficient patients may reduce morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients in ICU. AIMS AND

objectivesThe aim of this study is to investigate serum level of Vitamin-D in critically ill patients and supplementation of vitamin-D in deficient patients and finally to compare clinical outcomes between two groups. SETTINGS AND

designRandomized, prospective and comparative study. MATERIALS AND

methodsIn this study, serum vitamin-D level was investigated in recruited patients and vitamin-D deficient patients were randomly allocated into two groups viz; group-1, group-2. Vitamin-D (sachet CALCIROL 60,000 IU) supplementation was done once a week and twice a week in in group-1 and group-2 respectively, clinical outcomes between two groups were compared in terms of length of ICU stay, need for inotropic support, need for mechanical ventilation and 28 days ICU mortality. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Mean and standard deviation were calculated. Test of analysis between two groups was done by

resultsNo significant difference was found between two groups whether vitamin D supplementation done once or twice weekly (

conclusionFrom the above results we concluded that vitamin D supplementation in high dosages may be started in all critically ill patients, who are deficient in serum vitamin D level to get better clinical outcomes.

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Critical illnessmechanical ventilationmortalityVitamin D

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