Safer Surgery with Magnesium

Safer Surgery with Magnesium
Before, During and After

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association

All patients were found to have low serum magnesium
levels postoperatively, but to a greater degree and
for a longer period following open-heart surgery.[1]

Complications such as arrhythmias, kidney failure, stroke and infections may occur after major surgery. Everyone scheduled for surgery needs to increase their stores of magnesium. In the pre and postoperative phases magnesium can help alleviate pain, decrease blood pressure, alleviate certain heart arrhythmias; it works to prevent blood clotting, relieves depression so common after bypass surgery, and improves energy and cognitive abilities.

The level of serum magnesium during open-
heart surgery showed a significant fall below
normal values during the first postoperative day.[2]

The high rate of hypomagnesemia after cardiac surgery is well established. After heart surgery, mean magnesemia is reduced,[3] and the frequency of hypomagnesemia increases from 19.2% preoperatively to 71% immediately after surgery before dropping slightly to 65.6% 24 hours later.

The use of magnesium in the preoperative and early post-
operative periods is highly effective in reducing the incidence
of Atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting.[4]
Dr. Fevzi Toraman

The incidence of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass surgery remains relatively high (26.83%). Lower serum magnesium levels have been found to be associated with an increased incidence of atrial fibrillation, which was decreased in several studies by the prophylactic administration of magnesium after coronary artery bypass grafting.  In cardiac surgery, magnesium has proved to be as efficient as more toxic pharmaceutical drugs in controlling arterial pressure during cardiopulmonary bypass procedures.[5]

Magnesium administration is safe and improves short-term
postoperative neurologic function after cardiac surgery,
particularly in preserving short-term memory and
cortical control over brainstem functions.
Dr. Sunil K. Bhudia.[6]

While magnesium deficiency is fairly common, it is frequently overlooked as a source of problems by surgeons. Various changes in magnesium can occur before, during and after surgery of any kind. Plasma concentrations are decreased after abdominal or orthopedic surgery.[7] And researchers at Duke University reported that patients with low magnesium levels experienced a two-fold increase in heart attacks and all-cause mortality rate as long as one year after surgery compared to those with normal magnesium levels.

The incidence of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass surgery remains relatively high (26.83%) and this is principally due to strong deficiencies in magnesium. While magnesium deficiency is fairly common, it is frequently overlooked as a source of problems. The reason is that serum magnesium levels (the test most doctors use) do not reflect body stores of magnesium. Blood levels are kept within the normal range at the expense of other tissues.

When magnesium levels are corrected by the administration of magnesium before, during and after surgery medical complications are significantly reduced to the point where it becomes simply imprudent to perform surgery without it. Dr. Minato at the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, in Japan, strongly recommends the correction of hypomagnesemia during and after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) for the prevention of perioperative coronary artery spasm and his team has actually said that they won’t perform this surgery without its use any longer.[8]

Read The Full Article

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
http://publications.imva.info

Special Note: Please take a moment to visit our beautiful new Magnesium for Life site. Magnesium certainly is a beautiful medicine and it helps keep the skin beautiful or bring it back to health. Magnesium chloride has not been discovered by the beauty industry nor has sports medicine picked up on it yet. Not sure what they are waiting for. But doctors also resist or under use and have not understood how massively deficient it is in their patients. When I named this site Magnesium for Life, almost four years ago, I had not written my chapter Magnesium – The Lamp of Life. Now that I am finishing the second edition to the Transdermal Magnesium Therapy book and see how deeply into human physiology magnesium goes, I can make the statement that modern civilization is anti magnesium and thus anti life. It all starts with the white flour, the white rice, white sugar and the white highly refined salt. The very foundation of human existence has been betrayed on a cellular level by these foods and neither the government nor the medical industrial complex wants us to know about this.

Please feel free as you roam about my new site complex (see the top navigation bar) to leave comments at the bottom of any of the pages you visit and please leave your testimonials. Because there are so many sites we are still under construction so please understand. And you can see a video of me (more coming soon) on my personal site