Top 200 Drugs Podcast – Drugs 1-5

Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals

Eric Christianson, PharmD; Pharmacology Expert and Clinical Pharmacist

Education, Health & Fitness, Medicine

5 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Real Life Pharmacology Podcast, I start my journey on summarizing the most highly testable pearls with the top 200 medications. I'm going through the top 200 medications, 5 drugs at a time, and sharing my experience and clinically relevant information about these medications.

Escitalopram is an SSRI that can cause serotonin syndrome, sexual dysfunction, and SIADH.

Simvastatin is a cholesterol medication that can cause myopathy and rhabdomyolysis.

Levothyroxine is a thyroid hormone replacement medication that has numerous binding drug interactions.

Vicodin is a brand name combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen. It is an opioid combined with and OTC analgesic.

Lisinopril is an ACE inhibitor used for hypertension that can cause a chronic dry cough and hyperkalemia.

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0:00.0	Hey all, welcome back to the real-life pharmacology podcast. I'm your host pharmacist Eric Christensen.
0:06.5	As always, if you'd like to subscribe and get updates when we've got new podcasts and content available,
0:12.4	go do that at real-life pharmacology.com, and I'll email you a free PDF as well on the top 200 drugs.
0:21.3	With that said, on the top 200 drugs, kind of unveiling a new podcast kind of platform or episode
0:31.3	here and really wanted to cover the top 200 drugs.
0:37.9	And my game plan here is to really focus on those things that frequently show up on board
0:45.5	exams.
0:46.2	And so that's what I'm going to do today and going forward as well, probably over the next
0:53.3	year or two here with the top 200 drugs.
0:57.9	My target is to cover five drugs per day or per episode, excuse me,
1:04.1	and when those are released, and then that's going to probably take me about 40 weeks,
1:09.5	40 episodes to get those out to you.
1:12.7	And again, really focused on things that I've seen shown up in pharmacology exams throughout
1:17.7	my career.
1:18.9	A little bit of focus on clinical practice as well, some, you know, maybe cases and examples
1:23.5	that I've seen, but really trying to get you prepared and ready for your board exams
1:30.0	and pharmacology classes throughout school.
1:32.5	So without further ado, let's get into the five drugs of the top 200 that I'm going to
1:40.1	cover today.
1:42.2	First one is eschatalopram. Brand name of this medication is Lexapro. This is classified
1:49.5	as an antidepressant. And, you know, an easier way to kind of remember this one is the ending.
1:59.3	You know, eschatalopram and satelopram, you can kind of memorize two drugs there,
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