Circulatory collapse caused by unnoticed hypermagnesemia in a hospitalized patient
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2007-05-30
- 権利情報
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- http://www.springer.com/tdm
- DOI
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- 10.1007/s00540-006-0492-8
- 公開者
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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説明
We report a case of hypermagnesemia in a hospitalized patient after prolonged laxative use; due to preexisting impaired consciousness and digestive problems, the hypermagnesemia was difficult to detect until it almost became fatal. A 64-year-old man who was a patient at another hospital for treatment of head injury and gastric ulcer had developed circulatory collapse and was transferred to our hospital. Hypermagnesemia (serum magnesium concentration 11.0 mg.dl(-1)) was thought to be the cause of the circulatory collapse and treatments were successful. A magnesium laxative had been administered for more than a month at the previous hospital, but the patient's serum magnesium level was never measured. Care should be taken when a magnesium laxative is administered to patients who already have impaired consciousness and digestive problems that are early symptoms of hypermagnesemia.
収録刊行物
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- Journal of Anesthesia
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Journal of Anesthesia 21 (2), 273-276, 2007-05-30
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