There have been a number of studies to evaluate the usefulness of IV magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) in the treatment of acute exacerbations of asthma, and most have used 1.2-2 g IV over 20 minutes ...

Oct. 21, 2002 (Boston) — A combination of nebulized albuterol and magnesium is more effective than albuterol alone for children with mild to moderate asthma, according to a study presented at ...

Although guidelines recommend the use of IV magnesium sulfate for refractory asthma in pediatric patients, the number of hospitalizations linked to asthma have remained stagnant. In addition ...

The doctor may also give you a dose of magnesium sulfate, which you’d get by IV, to help the muscles around your airways relax. These aren’t medicines that would be a normal part of asthma ...

A new report finds that children who receive intravenous (IV) magnesium sulfate to treat refractory asthma are much more likely to be hospitalized than children who did not receive the treatment.

Considering its use an objective measure of increased severity of asthma exacerbations at presentation, the researchers said that intravenous magnesium sulfate was more frequently administered ...

IV magnesium therapy administered after initial asthma treatment in the ED was associated ... treatments of nebulized albuterol plus magnesium sulfate (n = 215) or 5.5% saline placebo (n = 601).

The conclusion was that the intravenous infusion of magnesium sulfate produces a “… rapid and marked bronchodilation in both mild and severe asthma…” A 1996 study by Britton and Hill, published in the ...

And studies attest to intravenous treatment with magnesium sulfate for a variety of emergencies we see in the ER, including acute asthma exacerbation, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia and a dangerous ...

In each of the 5 patients in whom the disease has been observed, the parenteral administration of magnesium sulfate promptly and completely reversed the symptoms, signs and chemical changes of the ...