Top 200 Drugs Podcast – Medications 196-200
Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals
Eric Christianson, PharmD; Pharmacology Expert and Clinical Pharmacist
5 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Lansoprazole is a PPI that can be used for GERD, ulcers, and other GI conditions. B12 and magnesium deficiency are possible long-term mineral and vitamin effects.
Augmentin is a combination medication of amoxicillin and clavulanate. It is an antibiotic for infection. Diarrhea is the most common adverse effect.
Lovastatin is a cholesterol-lowering medication. It is often not a preferred statin due to CYP3A4 interaction and it is less potent than other medications.
Valacyclovir is a prodrug that gets converted to acyclovir. It is an antiviral medication and can treat herpes zoster and herpes simplex infections.
Chlorpromazine is a dopamine antagonist that has anticholinergic activity as well. It is a first-generation antipsychotic medication.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm your host, pharmacist, Derek Christensen. |
| 0:05.4 | Thank you so much for listening today. |
| 0:07.7 | And this is a very special episode. |
| 0:10.3 | It is the final episode of the Top 200 Drugs Podcast series. |
| 0:17.6 | So hopefully you found it beneficial, hopefully you found it enjoyable, really meant and |
| 0:23.4 | geared towards maybe beginning healthcare professional students, you know, nurses, pharmacy students, |
| 0:30.2 | just to give you a good broad sense of those top 200 drugs and, you know, what they are, |
| 0:37.4 | how they work, and some of the most important clinical |
| 0:39.9 | pearls as well as things that are going to show up on your you know board exams or pharmacology |
| 0:45.8 | exams throughout school so again thank you so much for listening this will be the the final |
| 0:51.8 | episode on the top 200 drugs. |
| 0:58.1 | Going forward, I'm going to be looking at drugs I haven't covered. |
| 1:04.9 | So remember, I've got, I believe it's over 300 individual drugs I've already covered years ago. |
| 1:09.2 | So those are all in the archives for you to listen to, go find, go track down. |
| 1:14.0 | You can search for them on the website or whichever podcast platform you're in. |
| 1:19.8 | But again, a lot of the common medications, I've likely done an individual episode on that. |
| 1:23.8 | So go take advantage of that if you want to look at that. |
| 1:27.4 | And going forward, probably going to cover some more individual drugs and may also cover some |
| 1:29.0 | specialty things, whether it's drug interactions or, you know, maybe a little bit more targeted |
| 1:34.5 | reviews on, you know, cardiovascular medications or hypertension medications, probably do a little bit |
| 1:40.4 | of variety. So if you want to reach out to me, Med Education 101.1.g.com. |
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