Transliteration: poreia Phonetic Spelling: (por-i'-ah) Short Definition: a journey, pursuit, undertaking Definition: a journey, pursuit, undertaking, progress.
The target range for seizure prevention was 4.8 to 8.4 mg/dL. At Chonburi Hospital, only 67 (45.9%) pregnant women were found to have the therapeutic level (4.8-8.4 mg/dL) with magnesium sulfate therapy. In this study, 2.7% of the subjects developed convulsion, this incidence was much more than the other study, 1.9%.
Pooling the results of the available clinical trials of magnesium sulfate for neuroprotection suggests that prenatal administration of magnesium sulfate reduces the occurrence of cerebral palsy when given with neuroprotective intent (relative risk [RR], 0.71; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.55â0.91).