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This drug is used in the management of torsades de pointes, ventricular tachyarrhythmias and occasionally in acute asthma

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This drug is used in the management of torsades de pointes, ventricular tachyarrhythmias and occasionally in acute asthma. 

  1. Atropine.
  2. Adrenaline.
  3. Amiodarone.
  4. Lignocaine.
  5. Magnesium sulphate.
  6. Adenosine.
  7. Verapamil.
  8. Flecainide.
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waelhammad
2022-12-23
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e. The dose of magnesium sulphate is 8mmol (4mL of a 50% solution) for refractory ventricular fibrillation if there is any suspicion of hypomagnesaemia, especially if the patient is on potassium-losing diuretics.

Other indications are for the use of magnesium are:

• Ventricular tachyarrhythmias in the presence of possible hypomagnesaemia.

• Torsade de pointes. Digoxin toxicity

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