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Randomized Controlled Trial
Oral magnesium supplementation reduces the incidence of gastrointestinal complications following cardiac surgery: a randomized clinical trial.
Gastrointestinal complications are common after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. These complications are ranged from nausea and vomiting to mesenteric ischemia and liver failure. It seems that nausea, vomiting, and constipation are related to magnesium deficiency. ⋯ Our data showed that oral magnesium supplementation could reduce the postoperative complications. Despite the better status in the intervention group, the hypomagnesemia was present in many of intervention group patients. It seems that supplementation with higher doses is needed.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Comparison of the antinociceptive effect of systemic versus intrathecal magnesium sulphate on spinal morphine analgesia.
The aim of this work was to compare the possible antinociceptive effect of the intravenous (IV) versus the intrathecal (IT) administration of magnesium sulphate prior to spinal morphine analgesia. This research was conducted in two sets: First; experimentally, to compare the antinociceptive effect of IT magnesium sulphate (375 μg/rat) versus IP magnesium sulphate 100 mg/kg), prior to IT morphine (10 μg/rat). Pain was assessed using Randall-Selitto testing, the hot-plate, and formalin tests. ⋯ The use of IT or IV magnesium sulphate, in addition to the spinal morphine caused a significant decrease in the VAS score in the 6(th) and 12(th) post-operative hours with a non-significant difference between both routes. In conclusion the efficacy of systemic magnesium sulphate to potentiate the analgesic effect of intrathecal morphine is a promising and attractive route of choice for postoperative pain relief during spinal anesthesia. Opioid analgesia could be prolonged and the incidence of motor paralysis, common with the intrathecal route of magnesium sulphate administration, reduced.
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Magnesium is an important electrolyte for very many cell functions and its deficiency may lead to a wide spectrum of diseases. We report a clinical case of hypomagnesemia resulting from the chronic use of a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). PPIs are drugs widely used in medical practice, and a growing number of cases of PPIs causing hypomagnesemia have been described. Our aim was to monitor the clinical and electrolyte findings during recovery from hypomagnesemia caused by long-term PPI use. ⋯ this report emphasizes that even if long-term PPI users appear largely asymptomatic, life-threatening arrhythmias can present very suddenly. Long-term PPI users should be monitored for otherwise unexplained hypomagnesemia, hypocalcemia, functional hypoparathyroidism and associated symptoms.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Systemic magnesium to improve quality of post-surgical recovery in outpatient segmental mastectomy: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
It remains to be determined if perioperative systemic magnesium can improve postoperative quality of recovery of patients undergoing ambulatory procedures. The main objective of the current investigation was to evaluate the effect of systemic magnesium on postoperative quality of recovery in patients undergoing outpatient segmental mastectomies. ⋯ Systemic magnesium improves postoperative quality of recovery in patients undergoing outpatient segmental mastectomy. Systemic magnesium is a safe, inexpensive, efficacious strategy to improve quality of recovery after ambulatory surgery.