Ep 76 Poisons and Antidotes Pharmacology Mnemonics

Poisons and Antidotes Pharmacology Mnemonics Find the book here: https://geni.us/iA22iZ  or here: https://www.audible.com/pd/B01FSR7HLE/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-059486&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_059486_rh_us and subscribe to TonyPharmD YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/tonypharmd Need more help? You can find many of my mnemonics books on Audible that you might be able to get your first for free if you've never had one before.  https://www.audible.com/pd/Memorizing-Pharmacology-Mnemonics-Audiobook/B07DLGC8MP?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-118296&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_118296_rh_us Here is the Link to my Pharmacy Residency Courses: residency.teachable.com Another kind of niche topic is antidotes and poisons where you are expected to know which matches which. In this video, I give you some ways to better pair them together.    Auto Generated Transcript: Welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. I'm Tony Guerra, pharmacist and author of the Memorizing Pharmacology book series, bringing you mnemonics, cases, and advice for succeeding in Pharmacology. Sign up for the email list at memorizingfarm.com to get your free suffixes cheat sheet or find our mobile-friendly self-paced online pharmacology review course at residency.teachable.com/P/mobile. Let's get started with the show. Hey, and we're going to okay welcome to Poisons and Antidotes Pharmacology Mnemonics. What I'm really doing here is just um, I kind of always have to find some way to put things in an order and when you talk about poisons and antidotes it's really by definition is just matching. So how do you match things up? So what I did was I put them in alphabetical order first. So I took a number of poisons or drugs that you can overdose on and five of them happen to start with A. Then a couple started with B, C, D then E then H and then I finished up with O, P, P, S, and W. And so when we talk about these poisons and antidotes it's really about just keeping them straight in your head and then making a small connection uh to try to help you remember which medication or which uh poison ends up with which antidote. So let's start with the A's. First of all, acetaminophen's antidote is acetylcysteine so you can use the 'acete' in the very beginning of both of those. Alprazolam and diazepam have Flumazenil as their antidote so the A's in Alprazolam the A's and azepam and more generally the stems azolamine azepam for all the benzodiazepines uh flumesonil is the antidote there. Anthrax you can if you think of a mirror as Anthrax is the poison and ciprofloxacin is the antidote well if you put a mirror in front of this ax turns around x a so just think of this be xing out Anthrax or something like that okay amitriptyline and aspirin have the same antidote it's both sodium bicarb and the nice thing is that both of them start with an A so A for amitriptyline goes with the B and C for bicarb so ABC a and aspirin goes with the B and C for bicarb so ABC again. So once you get these first five down then you can kind of move on to the next one we're going to use a couple different letters to kind of move along with those so we're going to go B, C, D, E, H it didn't quite work out the way I wanted but again uh you know we're just trying to get some kind of order so that when we look at the um antidotes it works out. So beta blockers and calcium channel blockers both use glucagon as a way to have an antidote and a couple of things I was thinking about here when you have a beta blocker it masks the signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia that normal increased heart rate and things like that it tends to be gone so glucagon is something that you use when the glucose is gone. And if you think of beta blockers masking hypoglycemia maybe it'll all kind of stick in your head and then glucagon again especially with non-dihydropyridines that are going to affect the heart much like beta blockers do we try not to use beta blockers and non-dihydropyridine pyridine calcium channel blockers together maybe that helps you as well um digoxin and digibind. I think that that really helps that you know first three letters are the exact same but digibind or Jackson immune Fab that tends to be one most people can remember ethylene glycol is a poison well it's not it's a poison if you try to ingest it and from episode uh which is an ADH antagonist those are an E and F okay so we're going B, C, D, D, E, F. And then Heparin and protamine you might not see this but it's kind of a word scramble if you take the e p a r i n from Heparin you can find e p a r i n in protamine so just a way to connect them and hopefully kind of burn these into your brain uh. The last five I was going to go over are two that also have the same antidote organophosphates which maybe we do or don't think about it as cholinergic and it would be atropine which is the Anticholinergic drug right, if isostigmine which is also cholinergic. Well, it's an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor which keeps that acetylcholine from being broken down so it is in effect cholinergic. Atropine again is anticholinergic, works against it. Potassium, you think about K Plus on the periodic table of elements, what's right next to potassium? Well, it's Buddy calcium CA plus plus and they both have that hard k sound in the beginning to maybe help you put those together. But the calcium or calium that the K represents which is potassium and then the calcium CA gluconate that you would use for that. Serotonin syndrome and although I heard it called cyproheptadine, you can call it cyproheptadine to make it easier. Serotonin syndrome and ciproheptadine to use an S sound to connect those and then Warfarin and vitamin K. And if you think of killing happening in warfare, that's one way to remember vitamin K goes with Warfarin as an antidote. So again, this is very much an educational video meant to help you just remember many of the poisons and overdose and antidotes but if something does happen make sure to call your poison control center. As always this is for informational purposes only, it is not medical advice. If you have a medical question contact a medical professional. Thanks for listening to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. You can find episodes, cheat sheets, and more at memorizingfarm.com. Again, you can sign up for the email list at memorizingfarm.com to get your free suffixes cheat sheet or find our mobile-friendly self-paced online pharmacology review course at residency.teachable.com/P/mobile. Thanks again for listening. Like to learn more? Find my book here: https://geni.us/iA22iZ or here: https://www.audible.com/pd/B01FSR7HLE/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-059486&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_059486_rh_us and subscribe to my YouTube Channel TonyPharmD here: https://www.youtube.com/c/tonypharmd Here is the Link to my Pharmacy Residency Courses: residency.teachable.com