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Episode 12 - Torsades and Magnesium

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Divalent Cations: An Astronomy and Suggestion

magnesium is acting as a calcium channel blocker, like during that period where calcium is influxing. This was actually first shown to be the case in an experiment in the 1980s with some kind of unfortunate dogs that were induced by cesium infusions. And then we're given mag to see what happened and it terminated, totally terminated the arrhythmias and stopped those EADs. It's used to treat asthmatics in severe acute exacerbations their asthma and other conditions. But no one has pushed back on this, despite the fact that they're lacking the usual gold standard for trial results. Is that obvious? I'm assuming that there hasn't been a randomized trial of

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