The MedMal Room: Magnesium Sulfate - A Deadly But Effective Medication on Labor & Delivery

The Responsibility Clause - A proven treatment to protect the preterm brain and prevents the mother from having seizures with preeclampsia — but still not FDA-approved for neuroprotection of the baby

Magnesium sulfate is one of obstetrics’ most paradoxical drugs. It can save lives—and it has taken them. It is called a “high-alert medication” because mothers have died from it. It is given for two entirely different reasons, something rare in medicine. The first is to prevent or treat seizures in women with preeclampsia or eclampsia, a use that is FD…