Abstract
PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH 17:10 41 Results: The study showed that 45% of children were given nebulised salbutamol and 98% received prednisolone. Twenty-three children were admitted to the high-dependency unit, 19 of whom were admitted just for IV magnesium. Of the 23 children given magnesium, seven improved by one category an hour after infusion and 12 improved by one category after 2 hours. No cardiac or other complications occurred in any of the children who received IV magnesium. The mean length of hospital stay was 20 hours, with the minimum being 2 hours and the maximum 1 week. Conclusions: Our audit suggests that magnesium sulphate can be safely administered to children in a district general hospital. As there were no adverse events, we recommended that magnesium sulphate should be given in the general ward rather than the high-dependency unit. We plan to re-audit the effects of this change and our prescribing practice of magnesium. We await future studies into alternative routes of administration.
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