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Volume 8 Issue 4 (April, 2020)

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Role of Vitamin D level causing postoperative respiratory complications in the patients treated under General Anaesthesia
Sudhir Kumar Rai, Rituj Raghuvanshi

Background-Vitamin D is obtained by the photochemical route from dehydrocholesterol in the skin which is a fat soluble vitamin and its deficiency is a commonly observed health issue. Vitamin D have a modulatory effect on inflammation, contraction and remodelling pathways of smooth muscles cells in the airway. The prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency is increasing day by day in the general population throughout the world with the increasing evidences that shows it has a impact on respiratory health too. Materials and method-The study was performed in the private hospital with 50 cases aged from 20 to 60 years were included in the study who were operated under general anaesthesia while patients underwent thoracic surgery, patients with difficult intubation, other systemic diseases related with endocrine or neuromuscular disorders were excluded from the study. Results- Weight, vitamin D levels and duration of the anaesthesia in the postoperative cases. Patients were distributed on the basis of gender in males and females. 21 cases belongs to female patients while 29 patients were males. Mean for the parameters of age (F=47.43 M=46.20, p=.0820) weight (F=73.01M=76.63, p=0.121) vitamin D levels (F=11.42 M=14.2, p=0.027) and duration of the anaesthesia was (F=62.28 M=70.1, p=0.056) were observed. Conclusion- Identifying Vitamin D deficiency in postoperative period and bringing the levels back to normal requires a long term process. We believe that patients in advanced age group and who underwent elective surgery, optimizing the Vitamin D levels in the preoperative period will be beneficial in terms of preventing respiratory complications. Key words: Anaesthesia, respiratory complications, Vitamin D.

 
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