The Curious Clinicians

Episode 12 - Torsades and Magnesium

Oct 28, 2020

21:02

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Role of Torsades in Electrocardiography

2min

The Mechanics of Cardiac Myocyte Repolarization

3min

The Importance of Magnesium in Torside

3min

Divalent Cations: An Astronomy and Suggestion

5min

The Benefits of Magnesium for Seizures

3min

The Curious Clinicians: Why Magnesium Is a Calcium Channel Blocker

3min

The Curious Clinicians are back at it, exploring why magnesium so effectively treats the arrythmia torsades de pointes. Hint: it's the same mechanism as magnesium's effects on bronchospasm in severe asthma and seizures in eclampsia!

As always, you can get CE/MOC credits just for listening!

To learn more, check out the show notes for this episode on our website.

You can also read Avi's original tweetorial on torsades and magnesium here.

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