Magnesium sulfate therapy in patients with acute neuronal damage: The problem of intravenous administration

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 698-699

  Dohi, Kenji ^a   Ohtaki, Hirokazu ^a   Shioda, Seiji ^a   Aruga, Tohru ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Hypomagnesemia; Intracellular Ca2+; Magnesium; Neuronal damage

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM SULFATE;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN INJURY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERMAGNESEMIA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 14944383751     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000155907.21185.C0     Document Type: Editorial

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