Magnesium as an Antiarrhythmic ============================== þ Magnesium as an Atrial Fibrillation [Gullestad L, Birkel K, Molstad P, et. al. The effect of magnesium versus verapamil on supraventricular arrrhythmias. Clin Cardiol 1993;16:429-4334.] [Hays JV, Gilan JK, Rubal BJ. Effect of magnesium sulfate on ventricular rate control in atrial fibrillation. Ann Emerg Med 1994;24:61-64.] [Moran JL, Gallagher J, Peake S, et. al. Parenteral magnesium sulfate versus amiodarone in the therapy of atrial tachyarrhythmias: A prospective, randomized study. Crit Care Medicine. 1995;23:1816-1823.] þ Magnesium for V. Fib arrest: - "Empirical magnesium supplementation did not improve the rate of successful resuscitation, survival to 24 h, or survival to hospital discharge overall or in any subpopulation of patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest." [Thel MC, Armstrong AL, McNulty SC, Califf RM, O'Connor CM. Randomised trial of magnesium in in-hospital cardiac arrest. Lancet 1997:350:1272-76.]