CJEM Articles: therapy

There has been much debate as to whether magnesium, a well-tolerated, readily available and cheap therapy, should be used to treat patients with suspected myocardial infarction. Despite promising results from animal studies and small clinical trials conducted in the 1980s, two large recent trials have concluded that the once phenomenal treatment is ineffective. The story of magnesium for acute myocardial infarction is a lesson in medical humility.