Saturday, March 04, 2006

spent an entire day in sch mugging. today was the most moralising day of all the days tt i mugged in sch cause every day cannot rem anything. and after each meal, everyone stresses me out even more.

i realised tt stupid pple often need stupid methods to remember their MoAs and ADRs of drugs, well, of course i use alot of these, jb comes a close second.

appreciating how hard it is to remember such rubbish, i tot i'ld share some ways i rem crappy stuff like:

ADR of statins:
HMG-CoA Reductase inhibitors

H = headache/hepatotoxicity
M = rhabdomyolysis
G = GI symptoms (N/V/D)
C = cataracts (lenticular opacities)
R = ashes

ADR of Nicotinic Acid (vit B3):
AA/EFGH

A = toxic ablyopia
A = arrhythmia
E= endocrine (hyperglycaemia+hyperuricaemia)
F = flushing (characteristic, face/upper body)
G = GI symptoms
H = hepatotoxicity

Characteristics of Iodism

BCD/IMMRR

B = bleeding
C = conjunctivitis
D = drug fever
I = inflamed salivary glands
M = mucosal ulceration
M = metallic taste
R = rashes
R = rhinorrhoea

soo, nicotinic acid and iodism gives you, AABCDEFGHIMMRR

more random letters for ADR of inhaled steroids:

ABCCCDO

A = adrenal suppression
B = bruising
C = cataracts
C = cough (throat stuff)
C = candidiasis (throat stuff)
D = dysphonia (throat stuff)
O = osteoporosis

ADR of cimetidine (H2 antagonist):

cimetidINE

I = inhibition of liver enzymes
N = neurological effects (headache/confusion)
E = endocrine (antiandrogenic)

ADR of heparin:

all heparin abusers are NBA players

N = narrow therapeutic range
B = bleeding
A = allergy

they also go for Tea together everyday so there's Thrombocytopaenia and paradoxical Thromboembolism. long term SEs are HOA which is hyperlipidaemia, osteoporosis and alopecia. NBA players are all balding, brittle boned and fat (due to tea everyday).

ADR of warfarin:

all warfarin abusers are NBC players

N = narrow therapeutic range
B = bleeding
C = cutaneous necrosis

like the NBA players, they too go for Tea together everyday so there's Teratogenicity.

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i know it's dumb heh but maybe just put it here for something to laugh at when i look back at life 2 years down. lol.

2 Comments:

At 1:28 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

HEY!
waaa!!!
i remember yr nmemonics for the statins loh! and it came out today! LOL..
Thanks man!

 
At 9:18 pm, Blogger arkios said...

haha, good tt it helped you. it helped me too but i almost forgot what "M" stands for! i thought it was metabolic disturbances!!!! omg.

i think i would have been v demoralised if i actually wrote metabolic disturbances. lol.

 

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