The Top 100 Drugs: Clinical Pharmacology and Practical Prescribing

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Dagan Lonsdale, BSc(Hons) MBBS MRCP FHEA, Honorary Senior Lecturer, St George’s, University of London; Specialty Registrar in Clinical Pharmacology, General Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Glucophage takes its name from Gluco– referring to sugar; and – phage, which is the Latin for “eater”. Metformin is a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, so this name formation makes sense. is discussed under the headings: prescription; administration; communication; monitoring; and cost.Haloperidol is an antipsychotic drug. Its medicine name is a combination of the first three letters and the last three letters of the drug. Protons are hydrogen ions – and hydrogen ions are what contribute to excess gastric acid in the stomach. Pantoprazole is a proton pump inhibitor, preventing these ions from being released and so helping patients with acid reflux. All proton-pump inhibitors end in the suffix, ‘- prazole’. The job of pharmacists has evolved over the last several decades as our population’s healthcare demands have changed. Pharmacists’ function in healthcare has traditionally been limited to distributing pharmaceuticals. They must also ensure that drugs are delivered to patients accurately. Ambien takes its name for Good Morning from Spanish (AM, and Bien). Zolpidem is a Z-drug used to treat insomnia, so the medicine name makes sense. cosmetic treatment of wrinkles, chronic migraine, overactive bladder, upper limb spasticity, cervical dystonia, and strabismus

There are numerous other examples of connections between medicine and drug names. If you’re having trouble remembering the top 200 drugs, you should start by breaking them down into manageable, study-able chunks. Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, plaque psoriasis Daniel Burrage, BSc(Hons) MBBS MSc (Med Ed) MRCP FHEA , NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, St George’s, University of London; Specialty Registrar in Clinical Pharmacology, General Medicine and Stroke Medicine, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UKProfessor Emma Baker (PhD FRCP) is a clinical academic with roles in research, teaching and clinical medicine. At St George’s, University of London she is the head of the Clinical Pharmacology Unit, lead for prescribing education and assessment and chair of the Drugs and Therapeutics Committee. Current external roles include respiratory specialty group lead, (London South Comprehensive Local Research Network) and executive editor of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

Updated self-assessment material, now including calculation and prescription-writing questions, in addition to single-best-answer questions Books You Might Be Interested In In teaching, she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2003 and has received a St George’s undergraduate teaching prize in eight different years. She has co-authored a respiratory text book (Case-based respiratory medicine) and is currently leading her clinical pharmacology trainees in writing two new prescribing textbooks for publication in 2014. The more connections you can find, the easier it is to remember. Instead of memorizing a drug pair for the sake of memorizing it, you’re breaking these words down to learn about the relationships – and from there, you can add more details – including side effects – later on. But don’t overextend yourself.

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Venla faxine and Ef fexor share the f and x – helping you to link both medicines together ( fax versus fex). Venlafaxine is an SNRI that works as an antidepressant agent. Lipitor takes its name from lipids – which are fats, and – tor; referring to the drug a torvastatin. Statins are drugs used to reduce blood lipids (cholesterol). Anticonvulsants are a diverse group of pharmacological agents used in the treatment of both epileptic and non-epileptic seizures.