Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 181-190, September 2000

Intravenous Magnesium Sulfate Treatment for Acute Asthma in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review of the Literature☆☆☆

  • Brian H. Rowe, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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  • Jennifer A. Bretzlaff, BScN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Sudbury Regional Hospital Corporation, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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  • Chris Bourdon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Sudbury Regional Hospital Corporation, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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  • Gary W. Bota, MD, FRCP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Sudbury Regional Hospital Corporation, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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  • Carlos A. Camargo Jr., MD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Channing Laboratory, and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Received 6 April 1999; received in revised form 28 December 1999; accepted 27 January 2000.

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☆ Supported by a Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Research Grant. Dr. Camargo is supported by grants HL-07427 and HL-03533, respectively, from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

☆☆ Reprints not available from the authors. Address for correspondence: Brian Rowe, MD, Division of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta,1 G1.63 Walter Mackenzie Centre, 8440-112 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2B7 Canada; 780-407-7047, fax 780-407-3314; E-mail brian.rowe@ualberta.ca.

PII: S0196-0644(00)01321-4

doi:10.1067/mem.2000.105659

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 181-190, September 2000

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