Top 200 Drugs Podcast – Medications 86-90
Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals
Eric Christianson, PharmD; Pharmacology Expert and Clinical Pharmacist
5 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Metronidazole is an antibiotic for infection. One of the most common complaints from patients involves reporting of a metallic taste in the mouth.
Levetiracetam is an anti-seizure medication. Sedation, dizziness, and other adverse effects of the central nervous system are the most common complications.
Colchicine is a gout medication. The most memorable side effect associated with this medication is diarrhea.
Olanzapine is an antipsychotic. Olanzapine carries a higher risk for metabolic syndrome compared to other antipsychotics.
Dutasteride is a 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor that is indicated for the treatment of BPH.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm your host, pharmacist, Eric Christensen. |
| 0:05.1 | Thank you so much for listening today. |
| 0:07.4 | I hope you pick up a few clinical practice pearls, |
| 0:10.8 | as well as things that might show up on your board exams as well. |
| 0:14.6 | That's my intention, certainly, with the podcast. |
| 0:18.5 | With that said, all of these medications that I'm covering today, I'm covering five of them. |
| 0:24.9 | I've covered in much greater detail in previous separate podcast episodes. So go search the |
| 0:32.6 | specific drug you're looking for at real life pharmacology.com at the podcast tab. And then you can search any medication that you're looking for at real life pharmacology.com at the podcast tab. |
| 0:38.6 | And then you can search any medication that you're looking for. |
| 0:41.8 | Definitely a no-brainer there if you're trying to study or prepare for a certain exam. |
| 0:47.5 | And you want to brush up on a specific medication. |
| 0:50.3 | Go search at real life pharmacology.com. |
| 0:53.2 | We've got over 300 individual podcasts on individual medications. |
| 0:58.1 | So I definitely wanted to share that bit of info and remind you guys of that. |
| 1:04.4 | While you're also at Real Life Pharmacology, |
| 1:06.8 | snag your free 31 page PDF. |
| 1:09.0 | Simply an email will get you access to that. And you can do that by |
| 1:12.9 | subscribing at real life pharmacology.com. All right, let's get into the medications today. We've got |
| 1:19.6 | number 86 of the top 200 drugs, and that is metronidazole. Brand name of this medication is |
| 1:26.2 | flageal. It is classified as an antibiotic. It can be used to treat |
| 1:32.9 | bacterial vaginosis, anaerobic infections, intra-abdominal infections, amoebas, and also has some activity against C. diff as well. It used to be the |
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