Memorizing Pharmacology Podcast: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Side Effects for Pharmacy and Nursing Pharmacology by Body System

Pronouncing Drug Names Correctly The Easy Way

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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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Acid Reducer Drug Suffix TIDINE Pharmacology

In this video episode of the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast, I show you how to make your own first 20 elements Google doc so that you can readily memorize the rest of the table or have a head start on chemistry class.

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While chemistry is a foundation course usually given before pharmacology, we don't always connect the elements to the medications. 

In the second part, I will talk about medical uses for the first 20 elements so that you connect the chemistry of the Periodic Table of Elements to what you might be doing in your future career.  

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Hey, welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. I’m going to take a little bit of a detour today from our mnemonics in the advanced mnemonics from pharmacology and gastrointestinal system. What we’re going to do is we’re going to go over the periodic table and go over the first 20 elements and how to make a Google doc that you can use and kind of keep. But what I want to do is show you how I make them and how you can create it from memory. So the first thing we’ll do is we’ll create a table here.

We’re going to go across one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and then we’re going to go down one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Okay so nine across and eight down. Okay all right uh we’re going to have to make the font seven uh that’s the only way that everything will fit so that we don’t have to have any letters and words kind of going around but that makes it a little bit easier. Let’s see if we can’t make this a little bit bigger to see on the screen so there we go.

All right so first thing we’re going to do we’re going to kind of put some things here on the side and I think the easiest thing to do is actually not fill these in yet so I can kind of explain them. What we’re going to do is we’re going to put four periods here so we’re going to put period 1 period 2 period 3 and period 4.

So the periodic table of elements is because the periods have some similarities though as we’ll learn groups which are up and down or vertical are actually tend to be more related and so when we look at group numbers we would just go put something like group number in there and I would go one two three four five six seven and eight and then we’re going to make a little bit of a change instead of 3 it’s 13 instead of 4 it’s 14.

Instead of 5 it’s 15, 6 is 16, 7 is 17, 8 is 18. The reason for this is that since we’re doing the first 20 elements and maybe I’ll just even make it more explicit that we’re doing the first 20 elements from memory. The kind of table leaf that you know during Thanksgiving you can put a little extra piece of a table into a dining room table to make it a little bit longer. You’re going to see those transition elements we’re not going to mess with those right now so that’s why the group numbers are 1, 2, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18.

And the way that I like to do it is to start with the abbrev start with the numbers okay and then we’ll go to the abbreviation which is a lot easier to remember letters than it is to remember names then we’ll talk about how some of the endings of the names are the same because of the Latin and then we’ll go into atomic math so how much each of them weighs and I’ll show you the first 20 elements trick which is something that a lot of people like to use okay so let’s start with just numbering everything and I think to make things

Easier or more familiar what we’ll do is we’ll use this center align okay so start there and let’s start with one and this is what’s a little bit goofy is that we’re going to put our 2 all the way here under group 18. So group 1 is a 1 group 18 is a two okay then we go 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 and 20.

Okay so it’s a little bit goofy but I think it’s a little bit easier if you take a look at the numbers first before you ever mess with any abbreviations or any names of any elements. And so what we’ll do is to make it even more clear we’ll bold the group numbers and the periods so that it’s a lot easier for you to see okay so now let’s do the abbreviations so it’s H then He and we have Li Be and what I’ll do is I’ll show you a way to remember a bunch of these and what usually happens is you remember

Them but not necessarily the order and so sometimes it’s a little bit tougher to remember that order. And what we’ll do is we’ll see how some words kind of pop up as you’re looking at the periodic table. And Mg is 12 Al is13 Si is14 P for phosphorus is15 S for sulfur is16 Cl for chlorine is17 Ar for argon oops and then we come down to this last one K for potassium is19 Ca for calcium okay so what I’ll do is I’m going to put just a couple of notes here that we can use and we’ll put HH to

Remind ourselves that the first two elements of the periodic table start with an H hydrogen and helium. And then it is liberating to know all of the first 20 elements so Li for lithium Be for beryllium. You have to know your ABCs and in many ways the periodic table is like your ABCs and if you look at this box with aluminum boron carbon and silicon the first letters are ABCs. And what you usually see is some mnemonic that’s going to teach you the first 20 and you have to learn it in order but you don’t have to you can just say okay.

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"Well, here’s a little box and I see ABC’s. Okay, you also see the letters N-O for make the word no after boron and carbon for nitrogen and oxygen. Also see in I know this is not really grammatical but He Ne Ar okay. So looking at the elements in group 18 which we’ll learn later, the noble gases, but He Ne Ar and then I also think about I’m a runner, I like doing marathons. So someone who runs, you want to drink a lot of water before the race and make sure you’re peeing clear so peas clear C-L-A-R okay.

So just some ways to remember some of the elements abbreviations and where they are some other things that I just kind of notice is that N and M are right next to each other in the alphabet it’s just backward where the M is second and the N is first and then the K from K Liam which we’ll learn about in a second and K sound from calcium are right next to each other here too. So really when you’re learning the first 20 it’s not just about okay hydrogen and helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen

In a linear fashion but it’s also good to kind of keep it sticky in your head that all of these are where they belong okay okay so let’s move on to the names okay so what I want you to look at are some of the endings and you’re going to notice that when you see helium the next one lithium is very similar as is beryllium and then boron and carbon but we don’t say that we say carbon are similar as well nitrogen the oxygen and then the original hydrogen are all very similar oops add a little extra typing there with oxygen okay.

Fluorine is a halogen which we’ll learn about in a minute but also is going to match up with chlorine down below it and then neon we see that O-N ending again and what you’re going to figure out is there are just not a ton of different endings what we’re going to do with sodium is we’re going to put just under it natrium which is where the N A comes from that’s why it’s not so magnesium aluminum and in some countries you’ll still hear aluminium but we use aluminum in the states silicon.

And this is where it gets a little bit goofy where if you had pronounced it silicone it actually makes a different word so silicone includes silicon and some other things and some of the medical uses that you have for it phosphorus sulfur and then chlorine argon 18. We’ll just move this up a little bit and then for this potassium we’ll do potassium and callium and it as you get into your study especially if you become a healthcare professional when somebody is low on sodium we don’t say hyposodium emic we say.

Hydro hyponatremic if they have too much sodium we say hypernatremic and then with the potassium it’s the same thing we say hypokalemic too much too little potassium or hyperkalemic too much potassium so it’s important to know where that N A and K comes from because you’re going to be using it if you get into medical terminology okay so Ca for calcium and that’s all the goofiness there next thing you’re going to kind of do in the progression is you’re going to have to learn how much each of these weigh and we talk.

About mass rather than weight and you’re going to hear atomic masses so there’s a neat little trick to knowing it and this is the first 20 elements trick that any odd number which is going to be you know the numbers that we see right now are the atomic numbers or the number of protons in each of these elements so hydrogen has one proton which is a positively charged item in the middle or the nucleus of the atom so the odd is going to be double plus one okay and then the even is going to just be double and I’ll show you what this.

How this works out so hydrogen we see double plus one would be one times two is two plus one makes three okay two is even so we just double to make four lithium is odd so double plus one is seven so three times two is six plus one is seven beryllium is four so we make it eight boron is five so we make it eleven okay double plus one carbon twelve nitrogen 14 plus 115 oxygen double 16 fluorine 9 double plus 1 19 neon we’ll just go double 20.

Sodium we’re going to actually put this between the sodium and the natrium just so it’s really nice and even nice and clean. And so we’re going to see double plus one because it’s odd 23 magnesium we’re going to have double 24 aluminum double plus 127 silicon double 28 phosphorous 15 it’s going to be double plus 1 31 sulfur it’s going to be double 32 chlorine double plus 1 is going to be 34 plus 135 argon doubles 36 and then potassium we’ll again put it like right between there so we see double plus 1 is going to be 39 so 38 plus 1 and then calcium is going to be double 40. Now not all of those are exactly right there are four that need to be changed because they are exceptions and so the exceptions are and I just put H Ben Error okay so because it’s H B E N and A R those are the four that we’re going to make exceptions and those exceptions are going to be 1 9 14 and 40.

And you see the 1 9 1 4 4 0 and hopefully you can remember that so we recognize that hydrogen we change from a 3 to a 1 that’s actually its correct atomic mass beryllium we change from an 8 to a 9 that’s its correct atomic mass nitrogen goes from 15 to 14 and argon from 36 to 40. Okay so those are the exceptions then what you’re going to be asked to do is you’re going to ask to name four of the groups so group 1 group 2 group 17 and group 18.

The other groups do have names but we don’t really use them they’re a little bit goofy but if you put the word names in all caps here the name of the first group is AM and all the alkali metals the second group is going to be AEM alkali earth metals I’m going to talk a little bit about the metalloid stairs which is not a group as much as it is recognizing where we separate metals and nonmetals MS then we have the halogens and then the noble gases okay so we’ll put these up but I just put this here because if you look at names the word

Names AM AEM and MS are all part of that okay so let’s start with this first group name and what we can do is we can just kind of put this up here so group name and we’ll put alkali metals and then alkaline earth metals and we’re kind of losing everything so we may have to reduce to maybe 150 percent here so that we can see everything I’m going to put the metalloid stairs here because they’re going to start here but generally when you see a periodic table that’s colored in with some differences in the different colors

You’re going to see stairs with boron and silicon and then some of the other elements that are separating metals on the left from non-metals on the right then we go to halogens group 17 over here and then the noble gases are group 18. Okay all right then you’re going to talk about bonding there’s going to be Ionic and covalent bonding which you’ll talk about so we’ll start with Ionic charge and it’s going to be where are the plus is okay so the way to do this is to just go plus oops.

Plus one plus two plus three X then plus minus three minus two minus one X and so I’ll show you where that all works out and again our goal is more to just have this Google doc where we can always kind of go back to it so we’re looking at Ionic charge we see plus one plus two plus three X don’t really mess with that one minus three minus two minus one X and we see that you know hydrogen lithium sodium and potassium will have the plus one charge magnesium and calcium plus two aluminum plus three nitrogen phosphorus minus three

Oxygen sulfur minus two chlorine fluorine minus one. And just an easy way to remember those, maybe we’ll bold these sections, make it just a little bit stand out a little bit more hmm it made it go over let me get rid of that Ionic, put charge there okay next thing you’ll be asked to do is know the valence number. So valence numbers number of electrons in the outer shell, what we can do with that though is we can make it so I want to center this, I’m going to center align.

Okay, look at the ones place in the group number, valence of group one is one, valence of group two is two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So you can write your note here that valence electrons are in the ones place. Alright. So now let’s move on, built our periodic table what some people like to do is they like color it in with some different colors. And what I want do kind of make colors at least not too dramatic so that it’s still useful to you okay so let’s just start coloring this in and the way to do that on docs is to take the table options and properties and then you click down here on color and what we do is we change the cell background color so with hydrogen what I’m going to do is one of the big things is recognizing that hydrogen is a little bit goofy in that it’s going to be over here okay and it matches up to carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine as well as phosphorus sulfur and chlorine okay and I made them two different yellows I didn’t mean to do that okay there we go alright.

And what we can do is we can kind of color this box up here above the carbon and we’ll just color that one in the same color and yeah that one’s a little bit different I think we’ll use this one okay there okay and we’ll recognize this as the reactive non-metals okay we’re going to start from left to right and so what we can do is we can do the alkali metals here so we’ll just color this in and maybe we’ll use kind of this kind of very light red so we can still read our what we’ve got there.

And let’s see if even a little bit lighter just to make it a little bit easier to read those okay there we go so those are the alkali metals and then the alkaline iron earth metals maybe we can do a little bit of a purple or lavender that’s gonna kind of match up with that there we go okay then we’ve got our metallite stairs and we can think of stairs being maybe we’ll put a kind of a light gray for these stairs okay alright and use that same one okay so boron and silicon these are metalloids or

Semi-metals they separate the metals from the nonmetals aluminum there’s something called a post-transition metal and maybe we’ll just kind of make it green to just make it stand out a little bit and we can kind of maybe put that one up here so just make the name post transition metal will be green okay and maybe what I can do is I can kind of move these around a little bit to make it so that they match up a little bit better with where they lie so here we go what I might do is take the metalloid reactive non-metals and I’ll take this

Label and I’ll move it over here where oxygen is and there we go okay and we’ll take this metalloid stairs and put it over silicon so that it’s actually over the section that it should be over and post transition metal then we can move over aluminum so it can be in the right place alright so we can now change the colors to make it all work out so it matches up and this guy should be clear alright okay so some people learn better with colors and sometimes that’s a little bit easier and then maybe the noble gases we’ll do

Orange something just a little bit distinct from that yellow over there okay there we go alright. And I won’t mess with the halogens although fluorine and chlorine are halogens I don’t want to make it reactive nonmetals and the halogens because it gets a little bit goofy here but what I want to do is just kind of show you in our next section how these are used in medicine. And many of these 20 are used either as elements or something else in medicine but we’re already at 20 minutes so I’m going to do that in part 2.

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Proton Pump Inhibitor Side Effects Mnemonic - DEVELOPER

In this episode we take on the proton pump inhibitor side effects

This is advanced pharmacology mnemonic #5 of 134 that we'll be going over, I'll usually do a brief introduction, play the mnemonic from the course, then we'll do a couple of quiz questions to make sure you got what I was throwing down.

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Alright, good morning and welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. We’re going to go through another mnemonic in just a second but I wanted to show you the breadcrumb trail of how to get there. So you go to memorizingfarm.com, online pharmacology classes and I’m going to the teachable pharmacology course which takes me to the self-paced pharmacology course with mobile quizzes and videos. Again, you can always get half off by using the code HALF-OFF all caps.

And what we’re going to do is we’re going to go down to so these are the basics pharmacology basics then we have our GI musculoskeletal respiratory immune neurocardioendocrine and over-the-counter and now we have over 150 videos with the advanced mnemonics and we’re going to go here to proton pump inhibitors and the Ulcer Developer side effects.

Which question five: Name seven possible side effects or interactions of proton pump inhibitors.

Number five: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). We’ll use the mnemonic Ulcer Developer side effects: D - Diarrhea from Clostridium difficile infection, E - Elderly to remind us of dementia, V E - Enzymes SIP issues with some PPIs, L - Low magnesium, O - Osteopenia bone loss a concern for fractures, P - Pneumonia, E and R - Rebound hypersecretion.

Quick summary: We use the same letters to tie the side effects to the drugs themselves in this repeat mnemonic. When the PPI alone doesn’t work you might begin treatment for destroying Helicobacter pylori, the active organism in an ulcer. We’ll look at triple and quad therapy next.

So I’ll pop up this quiz here and here we go. So Ulcer Developer side effects we saw that which is a side effect of proton pump inhibitors and so constipation we actually have the opposite which is diarrhea from C diff infection or Clostridium difficile. Hyper magnesemia no we actually get low magnesium. Pneumonia yup that is a possibility again we’re reducing the acid in our stomachs and making it ourselves a little bit more vulnerable uh to bacterial attack and rebound hypertension now it’s actually worried about hypersecretion so you stop proton pump inhibitors the acid comes back.

So we’ll pop on there in pneumonia we’ll check our answer oh we said we’re gonna check and then we continue all right which organism causes diarrhea from taking proton pump inhibitors again that is Clostridium difficile he’ll mnemonic.

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Proton Pump Inhibitors Mnemonic - ULCER DEVELOPER

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Hey, welcome back to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. I’m Tony Guerra, your host and pharmacist. I wanted to go over proton pump inhibitors, not just because we’re going to do proton pump inhibitors and then in our next episode we’ll do the side effects and so forth, but I saw on Reddit somebody asking about, ‘Okay, how do I memorize all these drugs? They’ve given us 200, 300, whatever the number is, whatever the instructor gave you.’ And what I tried to do with the Memorizing Pharmacology book, the first edition was 200 drugs, the second edition is 350 drugs. You can just go to memorizingfarm.com if you just want the link to it.

What I wanted to get into was understanding how to take a drug class, kind of isolate it first and just say, ‘Okay, let me look at the drugs in this class first.’ Put those together and then what I’ll do is I’ll put them in order. So when you go into the Memorizing Pharmacology book, it’s intentional that you see antacids first, H2 blockers second and proton pump inhibitors third. Because when you’re looking at them you’d say, ‘Okay well what would be first? Well first I might just take an antacid. My stomach’s a little bit upset.’ Then you might say, ‘Alright well you know it’s kind of lasting a long time so maybe I’ll use an H2 blocker.’ And then when you have an ulcer as we’ll talk about in the ulcer developer mnemonic well then really proton pump inhibitors are probably where you’re going to go.

And all throughout the book that was the whole point is doing everything in an order that’s memorable because there’s a story with it. So that story that goes along with the book that’s what fixes the problem of ‘Oh I get it. They’ve given me 300 drugs. I just got to put some stories together.’ That makes sense so that I can remember not only the drugs but some of the side effects and what they’re for.

So you’ll hear the mnemonic and what it’s about in a little bit about each of these proton pump inhibitors but what I wanted to kind of get across to you is that in general when you are given a list they are not in the correct order which is why I created that list that you get when you join the email. Is that when you have them in the correct order that’s when your brain’s like ‘Oh I get it.’

And maybe a good example of this is there’s a show I think it’s called The Home Edit and when they organize closets and toys and all those things they actually use the rainbow. So remember ROY G BIV: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, violet whatever it is. And because they have it in that order you always know ‘Oh yeah I remember that book it was a blue book so it’s going to be here or I remember it was a red book so it’s going to be here.’

And all that matters is you do it in a way that is meaningful to you that’s helpful to you. And so when you listen to these and you’re kind of diving into the book or the course or whatever you’re doing you need to be thinking ‘Okay what’s the story I can put together?’ And the reason I wrote the book was my students are so busy and so exhausted it’s like ‘Well do you have time on the way?’ Well that’s the one place I have time alright great.

Just throw the book in before class. You can listen to the GI chapter. You understand the story of going from antacids to H2 blockers to proton pump inhibitors and then later on you kind of understand the story of okay well we’ve got anti-diarrheals versus those constipating drugs and things like that.

And so these stories come along another good example are the diuretics when we get to the cardiology section where you really want to go from the glomerulus all the way to the collecting duct and kind of begin at the glomerulus and then you know you go up the loop of Henle and then the distal convoluted tubule. And so you’ve got a great picture in your head.

Anyway, I went really long with this introduction so here’s the mnemonic for this week. And again if you need me [email protected].

Question number four: Name six proton pump inhibitors and their class suffix.

Number four: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). We’ll use the mnemonic Ulcer Developer: D - Dexlantoprazole (brand name Dexilant), E - Esomeprazole (brand name Nexium), V - Lansoprazole (brand name Prevacid), E - Omeprazole (brand name Prilosec), L - Pantoprazole (brand name Protonix), O - Rabeprazole (brand name Aciphex).

Quick summary: Often someone who is an ulcer developer needs proton pump inhibitors for treatment. Our acrostic becomes Developer.

Before I go into proton pump inhibitors, let’s pause to talk about mistakes with suffixes. I just read another pharmacology mnemonic book that got this wrong. The World Health Organization (WHO) globally and the United States Adopted Names Council (USANC) agree on a drug beginning prefix middle.

The ending these organizations agreed on for the H2 blockers is tidin (T-I-D-I-N-E). I see students quoting quizzing note card websites as reliable sources. They write that drugs ending in en (I-N-E) are always H2 blockers. That’s untrue. Morphine, an opioid, and fluoxetine, an antidepressant, both end in en for example. This build your own suffix error is a cognitive heuristic bias. That means the note card and book authors believe something wrong to be right.

Back to our proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). The ending or suffix is prazol (P-R-A-Z-O-L-E). The suffix is not a zol (A-Z-O-L-E), an organic chemistry molecule. If you use that as your mnemonic or suffix then fluconazole, an anti-fungal, is grouped into proton pump inhibitors. The proper suffix for fluconazole is conazole (C-O-N-A-Z-O-L-E), suggesting anti-fungal. There’s also aripiprazole with the piperazole (P-I-P-R) stem for schizophrenia.

Using suffixes is powerful but when an author cites various suspect internet sources, you might want to look elsewhere. With this prazole ending, we can now talk about six proton pump inhibitors.

Some students connect the prazol stem with preventing and protons all starting with the per sound to remember this order. We’ll use the mnemonic Ulcer Developer with these drugs using the D, E, L, O, P and R of the word Developer.

D - Dexlansoprazole’s brand Dexalant stands for right-handed excellent because the right-handed enantiomer lasts longer than its racemic lansoprazole counterpart does.

E - Esomeprazole: While the prazole (P-R-A-Z-O-L-E) ending means PPI, the E-S means S for sinister or left-handed, the active enantiomer. The manufacturer released Nexium after Prilosec as the next PPI drug.

V E L - Lansoprazole’s Prevacid prevents acid. The prev in prevents coupled with acid will help you to remember.

O - Omeprazole’s Prilosec has the PR for hydrogen protons. Protons or hydrogen ions are what make an acid acidic. The low (L-O) for low (L-O-W) and the sec for secretion of those protons or the O in Prilosec looks like a zero and Pry O Sec provides zero heartburn.

P - Pantoprazole’s brand Protonix reverses nicks and protons. Pantoprazole like esomeperzole and rebeprazole comes in an IV form.

E and R - Rabeprazole brand Aciphex combines aci from acid, ph little p capital h from the ph scale and x to excrete.

We try to avoid working on more than four drug names at a time because it taxes our short-term memory. Here we have six drug names however two drug pairs have parallel routes.

Esomeprazole and omeprazole only differ by ES (S). These two letters ES mark esomeprazole as the left-handed enantiomer, the one with therapeutic benefit. Omeprazole is an S and R enantiomer mixture with the omeprazole root.

The other pair includes dexlansoprazole, the R plus enantiomer of lansoprazole, the racemic mixture with lansoprazole roots.

Your brain chunks these four medications into two couples like your credit card chunks four groups of four numbers: esomeprazole pairs with omeprazole and dexlansoprazole pairs with lansoprazole. Then it adds two singles: pantoprazole and rabeprazole to chunk down to a group of four units like this:

1 - Dexlantoprazole and Lansoprazole 2 - Esomeperzole and Omeprazole 3 - Pantoprazole 4 - Rabeprazole

Knowing these groupings is what makes pharmacology easier. If you had a pile of 400 coins stacked with pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters you could separate them by their properties: the pennies are copper, the quarters are largest and dimes smallest; what’s left are nickels.

In pharmacology we need to take two minutes to figure out what the properties are for the individual drug classes then it’s easy to sort them.

Although I focused on peptic ulcer disease you can use these PPIs for conditions like gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) which can rarely turn into Barrett’s esophagus. Barrett’s esophagus, when tissue like the intestinal lining replaces the esophageal tissue, often comes with a higher risk of esophageal cancer. Regular doctor visits for dysplasia or pre-cancerous cells are critical.

Ideally, a patient should take these medications 30 minutes before a meal to get the maximum benefit. Make sure to let the patient know that these medicines may take a few days to take effect and don’t work as quickly as antacids.

Now let’s take a look at the side effects related to PPIs. So as always we’re going to go into our quiz and what we recognize is now we’ve seen esomeprazole, omeprazole, pantoprazole. We see that these all have the same prazole endings and cetirizine does not. So cetirizine is an antihistamine, thus this would not be a proton pump inhibitor.

Okay, we go to the next one. What is the brand name of omeprazole? And again we could go back up but we want to see alright well Dexilant, that doesn’t sound right. Nexium, no that’s esomeprazole. Prevacid, that’s not quite it either. Oh yeah, Prilosec, that’s right.

Omeprazole was supposed to be Losec but Losec actually was so close to Lasix that they made them change it. So they thought, what about protons? So protons low secretion, that’s what they were thinking when they made the brand name Prilosec for omeprazole. We check and we see that that’s correct.

So again, the big thing with these is making sure that you’ve taken the time to look at many of them in the same place so that you recognize them. I will tell you about one drug class it’s a little bit goofy something like aripiprazole. It’s not supposed to be that way where you have a stem in a stem but those are antipsychotics and that would not be correct. So again, prazole is what we’re looking for as an ending.

Hey, thanks again for listening to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. Again, everything that I talk about is on the memorizingfarm.com webpage. Whether you need to do the Memorizing Pharmacology: A Relaxed Approach for those, the second edition is the one that I put on there just because it’s the newest but that’ll get you to 350 medications.

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Gynecomastia Side Effects Mnemonic - FEMALE PARTS CARE

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All right, welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast episode 34. What we’re going to do is we’re just going to talk about side effects, in this case, gynecomastia because we’re talking about something that is related to some of the GI drugs but also other classes of drugs. So again, if you’re trying to remember a lot of things about side effects or a lot of things about a specific drug class, sometimes these types of mnemonics or advanced mnemonics are the best way to go. So I’ll get started again with the mnemonic itself, we’ll let that play and then we’ll go do a little bit of quizzing just a couple questions to make sure you got the concepts.

Question number three: Name eight drugs and/or drug classes that might cause gynecomastia. Number three: Gynecomastia side effect drugs. We’ll use the mnemonic Female Parts Care P Protease inhibitors A Anti-androgens R Reverse T Transcriptase inhibitors S Spirinolactone brand name Aldactone C Cymetidine brand name Tagamet A Anabolic steroids R Risperidone brand name Risperdal and E Estrogens.

Quick summary: These drugs can cause gynecomastia, swollen breast tissue in males. Since Cymetidine ties to the group of H2 blockers in the slide before, we can now add to our memory other drugs that also cause gynecomastia. If we don’t do this, the mnemonic has nothing to connect to and may fade quickly. Anchors and transitions are critical to keeping knowledge glued to your gray matter. To get to the next slide, we think of therapeutic progression. After failing an H2 blocker, one might move on to a proton pump inhibitor (PPI).

Okay, so we’ll go to the memorizingfarm.com course if you again want to join the email list you just kind of go down here you get the pharmacology cheat sheet cheat sheet with all of those drug suffixes here and then let’s go on to the course. So this is residency.teachable.com and we’re going to go to the self-paced pharmacology course mobile quizzes and videos and this is going to be just a couple questions about the mnemonic we just learned about.

So you’re going to see something more like this which is which drug causes gynecomastia as a side effect and you’re going to get a list of drugs and so we kind of go back to our mnemonic okay and we see that oh yeah okay of Spironolactone Lisinopril Insulin or Tramadol of Spironolactone Lisinopril Insulin or Tramadol which one is it in this case it would be Spironolactone which is brand Aldactone and again on the course you can just hit check make sure that you’re correct okay and then hit continue.

Which drug class causes gynecomastia as a side effect? So again we’re going from a specific drug now to a drug class so is it the Diuretics Estrogens Antibiotics Testosterone and again in this case we’re asking for a drug class so although Testosterone is a drug itself it is not a drug class okay so in this case we would say the Estrogens so again be careful sometimes there will be some splitting of hairs and in that case where yeah if it had been anabolic steroids that would have been a drug class but not a specific drug that that wasn’t what the question asked so Estrogens is our answer we’re going to check that one yes that one is correct and then we kind of move on.

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Histamine 2 Receptors Blockers Mnemonic with Quiz Questions

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Hey, welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast where we go over prefixes, suffixes, and side effects for pharmacy and nursing pharmacology by body system. What we’re going to go through now is a continuation of actually episode 2 which was antacid mnemonics and pharmacology. What we’re going to do is go over a histamine to receptor blockers mnemonic from the self-paced pharmacology course. Now we’ll switch over to the actual narrator who’s a professional voice actor. But what I wanted to do was make sure I’m clear about renitidine. Renitidine, which was Zantac, is off the market. But when a patient asks about it, you still kind of have to know it. So it’s like, do you leave it in, do you take it out? So it’s still in this video. But what I want to do is make clear that ranitidine is off the market. What they have done is change the active ingredient of Xantactophomotidine which is brand Pepcid. The recognition of Zantac was so great that they just couldn’t just take it off. So Zantac is now famotidine, an H2 blocker with fewer side effects than something like cymetidine.

So anyway, this is from the self-paced pharmacology course which there’s always a link in the show notes if you want to check that out. But what we’re going to do is we’re going to go through these each week system by system. But if you’re impatient just want to start getting into the videos right away, get a lot of videos done, they are in the course. We’ve got GI up now and we’ll have the others up soon.

Question number two: Name four histamine two receptor blockers, their class suffix, two specific concerns about cymetidine, one about cymetidine and phomonidine, and a general concern for the drug class itself.

Number two: Histamine 2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs). We’ll use the mnemonic California H2 C Cymetidine brand name Tagamet suffix tidine A Androgenic effect gynecomastia with cymetidine L Liver enzymes interaction sit 450 with cymetidine I Increases QTC with other QTC drugs Fomonidine and Cymetidine F Fomonidine brand name Pepsit R Ranitidine brand name Xantac N Nizadine brand name Exit and A Adjust for renal disease.

Quick summary: We remember the H2 blockers end in tiding T I D I N E think of a dining room table where people are going to dine T-O-D-I-N-E because after they’ve dined that’s when acidic problems like reflux appear.

How are H2 blockers different than antacids? They reduce stomach acid like antacids but for much longer. I use the mnemonic California to hold the four histamine II receptor antagonists because Cali means hot and forn means of it that’s how someone with heartburn feels.

I related the state of California to H2 because former California governor Schwarzenegger had a hydrogen-fueled Hummer H2 SUV and hydrogen is a big part of acidity. Imagine hearing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice saying California H2 C Cymetidine.

We don’t often see in clinical practice because it has cytochrome P450 interactions condensed as CYP-450 and pronounced sip like sipa drink. Cymetidine’s brand Tagamet is an antagonist. The TA an antagonist will help you remember A Androgenic effect like gynecomastia is a condition of enlarged male breast tissue that could happen with cymetidine. This rare side effect is a board exam favorite.

L Liver sip 450 interactions are an issue with inhibiting enzymes if you impede liver enzymes then those enzymes can’t process other drugs raising the other drug’s levels in the body.

I Increases QTC with other QTC drugs a concern with Fomonidine and Cymetidine you can get life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias called Torsad Depoint if the drug interaction prolongs the QT interval resulting in sudden cardiac death.

F Famotidine’s brand Pepcid contains pep from peptic and pepsin that relates to digestion and sid from acid. A student mentioned Pepsi, the soda has a very acidic 2.4 pH she said it always gave her heartburn so that’s how she remembered Pepcid also in sodapop the pop and Pepcids P-E-P are very similar.

O Are Renitidines tidine T-I-D-I-N-E looks like To Dyne the time patients might experience gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Zantac looks like a two with Antac after it so it’s an H2 blocker which works as an antagonist to acid. The ANT Ant in Antagonist and the AC in Acid will help you to remember Zantac.

N Nizadines brand Acid replaces acids C with an X. Nizadidine rounds out the histamine 2 receptor antagonists. We can use H2 blockers like these or the proton pump inhibitors that appear next for breakthrough nighttime acid.

And finally, adjust for renal disease with this group before we go on to our next therapeutic step moving on to Proton Pump Inhibitor PPI. Let’s take a minute to add a note about side effects and connecting more drugs.

To them all right, so let’s go into the course and we’ll just do a couple questions. First one is, which of the histamine 2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs) increases QTC with other QTC increasing medications? Is it Nizaditine and Cymetadine, Famotidine and Cymetidine, Nizadine and Famotidine, or Ranitidine Famotidine? Okay, and uh so just take a second to think about it. All right, so yeah if you got Famotidine and Cymetidine, you got it right. And that was the eye of our mnemonic increased QTC with other QTC Famotidine and Cymetidine.

Okay, so we’ll click on that one we’ll check it we’ll get our correct and then continue the next question. All right, which histamine two receptor antagonist has an androgenic effect that causes gynecomastia? Is it Famotidine, Renitidine, Nicadidine or Cymetidine? Okay all right and go back again and we see that the androgenic effect gynecomastia is with Cymetidine. Again in general, Cymetidine is going to be the least preferred of the medications because of its side effects but that’s kind of one of those pearls.

Again this is the residency.teachable.com course. Just a couple questions after but we’ll do this every week every Tuesday in the email if you want to get on that list and I’ve got 140 of these so plenty of mnemonics to come so hopefully you guys will take the time to write a quick review just say you know this is helpful to you or email me at [email protected] if you’ve got questions!

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Okay, if you want to look at any of the other books, it’s going to give you something like this where if you’re not an Audible member, you can join Audible and get a free copy of any of those books that I’ve written.

Okay, well let me talk about what I actually wanted to talk about today which is I’m updating the self-paced pharmacology course to add hundred and forty. It’s actually a little bit more than that, a hundred and forty mnemonics and new quizzes so I wanted to show you how that works.

So you go to pharmacyresidency.teachable.com. One of the big things I do, the reason why we’ve got kind of pharmacology and residency on the same page is one of the big things I do is I help students as they’re moving on to residency. My undergraduate major is actually English and I’m getting a second one in mass com but I’m really good at helping people with their papers and letters of intent and CVs to some extent but that’s why this is like this.

So you go to self-paced pharmacology course with mobile quizzes and videos and it’ll take you to this page where you’ve got the what is now the current self-paced pharmacology course. It has pharmacology basics GI musculoskeletal respiratory immune neuropsych cardio and endocrine and anytime you see let me tell you a little bit about Teachable if you see one of these little light bulbs it means that there’s a quiz associated with it if you see this it’s just a video no quizzes.

And then again this one’s a quiz that one’s a little bit more. So it works out to be like this is just top 200 and then this is more of a classroom lecture and then these are the original powerpoints that kind of go with that classroom lecture but I’ve had a lot of people ask me for more detailed mnemonics.

So what I’ve done is I’ve now added advanced mnemonic so I’ve only put in the GI so far there’s 16 of them and they take quite a while to go through but what I wanted to show you is this should actually say free preview. You can now go on it without paying anything and you can see the free preview.

And what it’ll do is you’ll go into it and it’ll start right away like this: Name four antacids and four side effects or interactions that concern you about antacids number one antacids okay so we’ll pause it right there. And these are from the Memorizing Pharmacology Mnemonics book.

And what people wanted was well I like hearing it but is there a way I can see it? And yeah, it’s in the book but they wanted it all together so what I’ve done is we’ve actually made it so that now it goes through the entire mnemonic and then got a couple quiz questions here.

I already did the quiz so let’s just look at the first question which of the following antacids have a laxative effect? We would look to the video and see that the laxative effect comes from magnesium hydroxide so we go down here see calcium carbonate aluminum hydroxide oh there’s my answer magnesium hydroxide and then both aluminum hydroxide calcium carbonate we check yep that’s the correct answer then hit continue.

Which of the following medications do antacid ions chelate with? So again chelation is that binding of like a multivalent cation so a plus two or plus three on the periodic table so it’s so important to have just a little bit of chemistry knowledge. And so we’re looking for which medications those are and we see okay ions chelation with fluoroquinolones and tetracyclines. It’s the eye from acidic meals from the mnemonic.

And so we see okay, fluoroquinolones, tetracyclines, just do a little check and that one’s correct. Okay, so that’s the way that this addition works and so what I’ve done is I’ve put in the first 18 for GI so that you can kind of have this visual of it and then it goes to H2RAs gynecomastia side effects, proton pump inhibitors, proton pump inhibitor side effects, what are the triple peptic ulcer disease, what are the quad peptic ulcer disease therapies, disulfiram reaction, prostaglandins diarrhea versus anticholinergic side effects, cholinergic side effects constipation nausea vomiting and then inflammatory bowel disease and then so forth.

So again, what I’m trying to do is give a more robust pharmacology course for you so that when you’re practicing this now you can go on your phone watch the video not just go to the next video do a couple of quiz questions and then go to the next video.

With these I’ll just put a couple quiz questions because the mnemonics do tend to stick a little bit better and it just gives you a ton more knowledge as you’re going into whether it’s NAPLEX or NCLEX or whatever it is.

So let me kind of go back to the beginning here. Okay, and so the way to check this out is to get to self-paced pharmacology course from residency.teachable.com and then go down to here where it’s going to be a free preview eventually where it’s going to save it eventually and you just go to this antacid one and click on that and then you can kind of see how it works and you know kind of go from there.

Again, if you’re listening to the podcast you always get half off of the price of the course. It’s normally 95 but it’s H-A-L-F-O-F-F all caps if you put that code in you can get half off.

So again please do join the email list. I will be sending out free audiobook codes every other week until I run out but I have a thousand codes to give out so I’m gonna kind of do this a little bit at a time and we’ll start with these first 50 codes for this Memorizing Farm second edition and hopefully this is something you guys will be looking forward to but I do want to again get in better touch with you guys and have that connection.

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Free Pharmacology Suffixes Cheat Sheet 

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Hey, welcome to Memorizing Pharmacology Podcast. I’m going to be releasing a very big set of mnemonics. It’s going to be over 100 videos and I will release those probably once a week, maybe even twice a week as we move forward, so watch out for that.

I haven’t been in good touch with you guys and what I want to do is I really want to stay away from the email list but I’ve created one at memorizingfarm.com. If you’re on desktop, you just go down to the bottom. It’s our best pharmacology cheat sheet here’s free, just tell us where to send it and we’ll send it to you. I just want to know who you are and kind of who is in the group so that I can better serve you guys and understand what you guys want.

This is the cheat sheet that you get if you do want to join the email list to start. It’s the suffixes list from Memorizing Pharmacology second edition. Although it’s a top 200 drugs book, there’s actually 350 drugs. I kind of went a little bit overboard but there’s a lot of them that you really need to know like the antacids that wouldn’t show up on a top 200 drugs list or aspirin and things like that but it has the stems and suffixes and things like that.

Again, if you’re just looking for an introduction to pharmacology over the weekend, Farm Memorizing Pharmacology relaxed approach is seven hours. Memorizing Pharmacology Mnemonics about six hours or seven hours so that’s a little bit more advanced, this is a little bit more basic.

But I also have again for you guys if you want to have your own course kind of before you get into classes this fall, you can always get half off. You can enroll at residency.teachable.com forward slash P forward slash mobile and then if you want to take pharmacology with me there are six more spots left for the fall semester we unfortunately only take 24 in the fall 24 in the spring and then summer we we have up to 48 but you would go to just put in DMACC space pharmacology it’s the top course that pops up because we don’t charge out of state tuition so our tuition is like 175 dollars and then it’s like thirty dollars because it’s an online class and it’s a four credit class so it is um thorough but those that are looking for uh PA school or those that are looking to maybe make up a course that they didn’t get the grade they needed in nursing school those tend to be some of our students and then other students that really just going to a classroom twice a week three times a week at night in the day it just doesn’t work with your schedule or maybe you have a schedule and you want to get a little bit ahead those are all reasons but you’re welcome to contact me at Tony the pharmacarmacist gmail.com again Tony the pharmacist gmail.com and you can see the syllabus and see if that’s something that works for you it’s always up there and then there’s a couple of preview videos that you can see but it’s online pharmacology pharmacology phr185 and that’s something that we’ve had quite a few students take so again sign up for the email list so I can keep in touch and then over the next couple weeks I’m actually going to send in quite a few free audiobook codes out from audible they just give me these every time I get one and so I want to kind of reward those that you know just want to be part of the community so thanks again.

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Memorizing Dilution Solutions 

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All right, I wanted to talk about dilution and solutions. I saw this on social media and I thought it’d be good to review how to do it and show you how I do things. I teach introductory chemistry as well as pharmacology, so it’s really a lot easier to do this kind of math if you’ve already had chemistry because it’s so similar to the stuff that we’re doing.

Here was the question that was presented or something like this: How many mLs of a four percent stock solution do you need to compound 100 mL of a 0.04 dilution in distilled water? What I usually see is some kind of ratio proportion or something like that where they just start scribbling numbers in. What I want to give you is a much more regimented way that you can do it every time so it always works.

The first thing I like to do before I even mess with any equations is just to write down the variables in a way that’s clear. The first concentration is four percent. The first volume, well, it’s how many mL so we don’t even know. The second concentration is 0.04 and the second volume is 100 mL.

Now that I have my variables, it just makes it a lot easier for me to say okay, what kind of equation would have this kind of stuff in it? The equation would be concentration of one times the volume of one is the concentration of two times the volume of two. We do this in chemistry all the time where we take the molarity times the volume equals the molarity times the volume.

Somebody who’s taking introductory chemistry is just going to have a lot easier time with this because they’ve worked through this type of equation. It’s just a matter of putting your head together that oh, the M is a concentration would be the same thing.

Now this is where it gets a little bit tricky. It’s a lot easier here because we have this horizontal equation. We don’t have something over something equals something over something. We don’t have to get something from the numerator or denominator. So numerator is on top, denominators on bottom and we don’t have to get something from the denominator.

All we have to do is move this C1 to the right and the way that you do that is you multiply both sides by one over C1. So this would cross this one out and then the C1 would be under here. This is what it would look like, the isolated variable equation. So this is isolated, the V1 is on the left and C2 times V2 over C1.

Now this may be a little difficult for some because they prefer to have the number on the right side. You’ve always multiplied two plus two equals four not something equals two plus two oh that’s four. So it may or may not be difficult, I can do it either way but again I just prefer to just leave the isolated variable where it lay and just kind of work with that.

But this is the equation that we’re actually using: V1 equals C2 times V2 over C1 and then this is where you plug in the numbers: V1 equals 0.04 times 100 mL divided by four; V1 equals four mLs over four; and then V1 equals one mL.

Again if you have questions like this feel free to put it in either the YouTube video in the comments. I’m on Tony PharmD, sorry I couldn’t think of anything more clever or you can always send me something at [email protected].

But what I want to do is I want to show you how to do this in five seconds or less and this is how I would have done it. I wouldn’t have even gone through all of this, I’m just doing it so you can see how it’s done.

I would have just looked at this and said okay, I’ve got this concentration of four percent and this concentration is one one hundredth of that okay so in some way my answer is gonna have to do one to a hundred okay so if this is 100 mLs then this is probably just going to be 1 mL and that would have been it, I would have been done.

So if you’re wondering like ‘I don’t understand how does that person finish the test so fast?’ They’re not actually going through all those steps, they’re just intuiting it because they’ve done so many of them before like ‘Oh, it’s a solution problem or a dilution problem.’

So how can we make this so this actually sticks in our head because I think it’s really tough to visualize this if you have some stock solution you don’t actually have a name of anything and even if you did have the name of a medicine, have you had experience with that medicine to know what it looks like color it is?

What I did was I did this with milk which is something that everybody probably recognizes and what I do is I just change the question from how many mLs of a two percent milk do you need to compound 100 mLs of one percent milk. So it’s the same thing, I’m taking a higher percentage to a lower percentage, same number of mLs in distilled water.

Our variables are two percent, don’t know, one percent and 100 mLs. Our equation is the same: C1 times V1 equals C2 times V2. We isolate the variable same way: V1 equals C2 times V2 divided by C1 and now we plug in the numbers and we see V1 equals 0.01 times 100 mL divided by 0.02 that’s 1ml divided by 0.02 which is 50mls.

Now let’s look at this one more time and say, ‘Oh well, if I’m going from 2 to 1 percent and gonna go half, then what I expect is this number will be halved.’ Okay, so just like we did one hundredth before, you know we went from four to .04. We went from 100 to one. We’re going from two to one and one is half of two and 50 mLs. Our answer is one half of 100.

If you want to see some questions like this, I did a book memorizing pharmacy technician mnemonics. Again, I know I’ve talked about in the last couple episodes but what I did was instead of doing the math by the type of math, I did it by body system. So I did a GI problem in the GI section and a musculoskeletal problem in the musculoskeletal section.

But if you’ve got specific types of problems that are really bugging you and you’re like, ‘Okay well, I want to know how Tony would do this,’ then you know just give me an email or just throw it in the comments on Tony PharmD on YouTube and then just let me know.

But again, this kind of math is really all about this process. Let’s go to soccer because in soccer there’s an expression that you want to get there fast and arrive slow. Okay so when I say get there fast, what I mean is the first thing I do is I’m very quick about this. I just okay first variable, second variable, third variable, fourth variable.

Okay what’s my equation? Okay let’s isolate the variable. Now I go slow because I want to make sure okay concentration two, concentration two. Let’s not actually gently mix up C1 and C2. Okay, I put that one there V2 100 mLs okay C1 4 okay that’s going to be there.

So when we say you know get there fast arrive slow, we’re saying you know you can write down the variables very quickly because you know that that’s right in front of you. The equation maybe it takes a minute or two to kind of just like okay which one do I need to use but it’s so much easier when you have the C1 V1 C2 V2 like oh yeah yeah I remember this one I know what I’m doing.

And then isolating the variable requires just a little bit of math and then plugging in the numbers is the easiest part but the easiest to mess up because you know we’re a little too fast with it.

So again, you know I want you to succeed in these kinds of problems so make sure you take the time to give me a couple problems that you might be struggling with and I’m happy to solve them for you.

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