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Magnesium is a naturally occurring element and essential to human physiology and homeostasis at the cellular level. In the past few decades it has been suggested that it has uses not only in the potentiation of certain anesthetics, but as a modality for pain management. Magnesium has the ability to augment receptors in the central nervous system that alter pain perception and pain signal propagation and amplification.

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Wendahl, A.J., Weinstein, A.L. (2019). Magnesium Infusion Therapy. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Infusion Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17478-1_4

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