nixietink Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 I was wondering if anyone has a list or a good resource for the most common drugs and their dosing? I find myself lost in the amount of pharm during didactic year, and would love to start focusing on the drugs that I will most commonly use in practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted December 30, 2014 Moderator Share Posted December 30, 2014 buy pharmacolgy made ridiculously simple. I don't know how folks do pharm without this. they break down common meds into tables with mechanisms, interactions, etc by class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbrothers98 Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 I like this book: Patient-Centered Pharmacology Learning System for the Conscientious Prescriber [Print Replica] [Kindle Edition]William N Tindall (Author), Mona M Sedrak (Author), John M Boltri (Author) But for practical pharmacology ie what you will likely prescribe, go to: http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/hp.asp Scroll half way down to top 200 US drugs, click on By Prescriptions Dispensed tab. Anecdotally, had a student doing an ED rotation with me. Had a pt barfing their brains out. Asked him what antiemetic he would use. He wanted to order something I had never heard of. Did a lil bit of on the spot research, found that it was an antiemetic only available in Canada. So why did someone teach him that? Last, could subscribe to The Medical Letter Online, $98 per year. The Treatment Guidelines section would be ultrahelpful. Good luck. G Brothers PA-C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterallsummer Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Yeah this is difficult to do. Honestly you will begin to learn them as you Rx then in the clinical phase of your program and once you are a PA. As far as reference if you have access through your school, uptodate or lexicon have all doses for indications. I use this regularly to check doses, CIs, cross rxn etc at work. With time you will learn common doses of BP meds, abx etc. and most places EMR has the doses in there so you get used to knowing what you want. When in doubt for a new med just start low and titrate up. Another website though I can't say it's as reliable as uptodate is drugs.com As far as knowing "for dog bite give xyz" etc, I recommend medscape or epocrates app. And the above book is good I used it through school but is too big to be a quick reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted December 31, 2014 Moderator Share Posted December 31, 2014 knowing meds from your prior experience BEFORE you start PA school really helps too....:) I knew probably 1/2 of the pharm stuff before day 1 of pa school from er tech and medic exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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