OBJECTIVE To review the function and use of intravenous magnesium in magnesium depleted and non-magnesium depleted patients. DATA SOURCES A review of studies reported from 1966 to 1998 and identified through a MEDLINE search of the English-language literature on the use of intravenous magnesium. SUMMARY OF REVIEW Magnesium is a metalo-coenzyme that participates in numerous enzymatic reactio...

Intravenous administration of fluids, drugs, and nutrition is very common in hospitals. Although insertion of peripheral and central cannulae and subsequent intravenous therapy are usually well tolerated, complications that prolong hospitalisation, and in some cases cause death, can arise on occasions. Additionally, many cannulae are inserted unnecessarily. This article seeks to review this are...

Case 1.?Airs. T., aged 22. was suffering from a very severe attack of phlegmasia alba dolens (white leg) for about three weeks, when I was called to sec her. The whole leg from the foot to the groin was very much swollen and double the circumference of the"healthy leg, extremely painful and pitted on pressure. I at once gave her 1 c.c. of tinct. iodine intravenously, and advised frequent boric ...

an almost moribund condition, I used intravenous injections of quinine bihydrochloride grs. 10 in 10 c.c. of normal saline with 10 minims of adrenalin chloride solution added. The injections were given very slowly at the rate of 1 c.c. per minute. In several other cases associated with collapse I used pituitrin 1 c.c. in 5 c.c. of normal saline, given slowly at the rate of about 2 c.c. per minu...