Top 200 Drugs – Medications 176-180

Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals

Eric Christianson, PharmD; Pharmacology Expert and Clinical Pharmacist

Education, Health & Fitness, Medicine

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Prednisolone is a corticosteroid that is often used in pediatrics. Hyperglycemia, insomnia, and GI upset are relatively common adverse effects.

Ibuprofen is a commonly used OTC pain reliever. It is classified as an NSAID and can increase GI bleed risk and exacerbate heart failure.

Aceon is the brand name for perindopril. ACE inhibitors are well known to cause drug induced cough and will cause hyperkalemia.

Trazodone is classified as an antidepressant but is frequently used to treat insomnia because of its sedative properties.

Pioglitazone is an oral anti-diabetes medication that should be avoided in patients with heart failure.

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0:00.0	Hey all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast.
0:03.6	I'm your host pharmacist, Eric Christensen.
0:05.5	Thank you so much for listening today.
0:07.5	We're going to continue on with the top 200 drugs.
0:10.7	We are winding down.
0:12.2	We are at 176 through 180 today.
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0:25.1	Some of my most important clinical practice pearls,
0:28.1	as well as things that show up on board exams and pharmacology exams throughout your career.
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0:43.0	All right.
0:43.4	Let's get into 176.
0:45.0	That is prednisalone.
0:47.5	Brand name of this is pedipred or oropred.
0:51.0	This is a corticosteroid.
0:52.8	So similar, as you could could expect with the name to
0:56.0	medication like prednisone. Indications, any type of situation where you've got some
1:03.5	inflammatory issues going on. So asthma, COPD, you know, severe allergic, like skin reactions, that type of thing.
1:13.2	Autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis also can be used for transplant patients as well
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