Pronouncing Drug Names Correctly The Easy Way

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I have a free website with over 800 pronunciations that I show the link to as well as provide a tutorial on backbuilding, a way to pronounce drug names if you struggle to repeat or a patient struggles to repeat what you say. You can find the website here:

https://www.memorizingpharm.com/

and the audiobook on pronouncing drug names here:

https://www.audible.com/pd/How-to-Pronounce-Drug-Names-Audiobook/B01N7VN8B7?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-078590&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_078590_rh_us

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Hey, welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. I got a lot of questions about drug pronunciation, so what I did was I put a link on my memorizingfarm.com home page. All you have to do is click on H-E-R-E where it says ‘click here for drug pronunciation page’, and it will take you to a page where I have 800 drug pronunciations. Now, on a desktop, it’s going to be up here. You can just see A, B, C, D, E and all you need to do is click on the first letter of the name and you can find the medication. Okay, so that’s if you’re looking for a single drug pronunciation.

If however, you know that it’s a real struggle and that you’re just not getting the gist of it, I did write a book called ‘How to Pronounce Drug Names’ to make it a little bit easier for you to do that because it’s super hard to remember all these medication names if you don’t know how to pronounce them right or if you’re not confident in the pronunciation. You can just click on that here. It’s called ‘How to Pronounce Dry Names: A Visual Approach to Preventing Medication Errors’ and the reason I called it a visual approach is what I’ll show you in a minute is exactly what it means to see how to pronounce something because you’re looking at the words that’s not helping you. What you want is to translate it to regular English words.

What I’m going to do is I’ve got a video on that site when you click on that and it’s the pronunciation of acetaminophen. In the UK, I know you guys call it paracetamol but what I want to show you is how maybe somebody says this is how you pronounce it and then you try to pronounce it and you still aren’t getting it right and what’s happening. Why aren’t you able to pronounce it properly? And I’m going to show you what it is that’s really happening and how to use a technique to get that sorted out.

So again, if you want to get the real gist of how to pronounce drug names, you just click on that button. It’ll take you to Audible. You can either get it for free with uh if you’ve never gotten something on Audible before or I think it’s like 10 or 12 bucks. I don’t know what the price is because because I’m an Audible member so I don’t pay as much from out or if you are an Audible member, it might be something you want to grab.

Okay well let’s talk about how to pronounce drug names and to do that so I’m going to go into the book ‘How to Pronounce Drug Names’ and I’m going to go through an example in the beginning. One of the most significant medication mistakes especially with nursing that happens is in between Hydromorphone and morphine and the big reason that this is such a big issue is because of the dosages.

The big issue with Hydromorphone and morphine which look really similar is that when you talk about potency one milligram Hydromorphone is equal to 10 milligrams of morphine. That means that if someone gives 10 milligrams of hydromorphone instead of 10 milligrams of morphine they’re actually giving a hundred milligrams of morphine which can cause respiratory depression and one of the ways to avoid this error is to pronounce them correctly, be able to pay attention really to the word.

So what I’m going to show you is a technique called back building after I show you the English words that you can use to better understand Hydromorphone and morphine okay so Hydromorphone is made up of a couple syllables Hydro more and foam high as in hybrid or hyphen or the drug magnesium hydroxide Dro as in drone like in hydrocortisone more as in the word more or Morse code and of course Hydromorphone and in phone like the word phone or telephone okay so Hydromorphone.

And by knowing the words that they’re in the English words, you know okay I get it it’s the high from hybrid drove from drone more from more the word more and then phone and then morphine is just like more and Morse again and then the fiend is like the fee from Sophia and um from Dune like if you have sand dunes okay so when we pronounce something though.

And we want to use back building which is the technique that I would recommend and that you’re struggling too say it after somebody says it, go with the last syllable then last penultimate syllable, syllable before last then three syllables before end then all syllables so would go like this if wanted practice Hydromorphone somebody wants me pronounce would say phone more phone dromorphone hydromorphone okay with morphine would just be fiend then morphine okay.

So, let me show you how to do the same thing with Acetaminophen Brant Tylenol. This is how all of the videos work that have those pronunciations and what we want to do is we want to translate sounds first into English words that we’re familiar with. Those sounds make it a lot easier for us to recognize that sometimes the way the words are is going to be a little bit different and so this way we’re sure that we’ve got it right.

So, the first thing I’m going to translate just like I did with Hydromorphone and Morphine into common words. So, it’s when you see the Acetaminophen, the first letter A, you wonder well is it Acetaminophen or Acetaminophen and that’s what the common words are for. So, it’s ah as in comma or aura, c c e as in ceiling, ta as in data or data, Sonata or quota, me as in mint or milk and then it’s not no fin it’s nothing so as in Canon or a cannon. So there’s Canon like the thing that ex shoots out shells and then there’s a cannon like Canon and D from Paco bill and then Finn p-h-e-n part of hyphen okay so acetam when you have this little accent it reminds you that the stress goes here but that’s really not enough.

The next step is you try to say it but it’s still not coming out right so the next step is to do back building and what backbuilding does you again take the ending start with that and then you do two syllables three syllables four syllables five syllables six syllables from the back not the front and I have that in this video as well okay and we’ll look at this here we’re going to start with Fen and then here it would sound like no fin but it’s actually na Fen me nothing Finn acetaminophen okay so this back building exercise anytime you get a medication that you’re not sure about you want to go backward start from the ending.

Another drug that’s often mispronounced is Omeprazole. You’ll hear a meprazole right and so it ends up with being when you do the back building it’s Zol presso meprazole omeprazole right and so doing that I believe will help you quite a bit as you move on okay so last point I wanted to make again if you want to have your own self-paced pharmacology course where you’re able to either if you want to take a whole course at once and just learn pharmacology or you can do it a little bit differently which is maybe you’ve got a gastrointestinal exam coming up and you can go right to the GI section or maybe you have cardiac section or neuro section those are a lot harder you want to get ahead these are already there so something that you can do as well.

You can always use all caps h-a-l-f-o-f-f half off is the discount code okay so I hope this was helpful my books memorizing pharmacology so if you’re on this page memorizing pharmacology does have pronunciations in it okay but the expanded pronunciations like the ones I went over with the back building that’s in memorizing uh pharmacov or how to pronounce drug names which you can find on the drug names page which comes from that first click here for the drug pronunciation page right now it’s a free Wix site I’ll probably change that eventually but here you can find that acetaminophen explanation on how to do that.

And then also how to pronounce one that’s really a struggle for a lot of people the beta blockers so metoprolol natalol pen butylol pendalol I put that one on there these are two of the most popular videos in terms of pronunciations but I do have those 800 pronunciations make it a lot easier for you so just bookmark that page and you can get on there quite a bit.

 

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