128 - Introducing HelixTalk’s 2021 Drug Superlative Awards!
HelixTalk - Rosalind Franklin University's College of Pharmacy Podcast
Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS
5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we announce the debut of the HelixTalk Drug Superlative Awards -- awards given to medications on the market that are outstanding or notorious. In announcing these completely fictitious awards, we review key clinical pearls and pitfalls that every clinician should be aware of with these medications.
Key Concepts
- Drug most likely to be remembered for COVID-19 ineffectiveness rather than its actual FDA indication: hydroxychloroquine
- Commonly used but worst hypertensives on the market: it’s a tie! Atenolol and hydrochlorothiazide.
- Most confusing dosage forms: valproic acid, valproate sodium, and divalproex -- it’s all the same thing!
- Most innovative prodrug: valacyclovir
- Hottest inactive ingredient: it’s a tie! Sulfobutylether-beta-cyclodextrin (SBECD), an excipient in remdesivir, and polyethylene glycol (PEG), an excipient in mRNA vaccines.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Helix Talk, an educational podcast for healthcare students and providers covering real-life clinical pearls, professional pharmacy topics, and drug therapy discussions. |
| 0:11.0 | This podcast is provided by pharmacists and faculty members at Rosal Franklin University College of Pharmacy. |
| 0:17.0 | This podcast contains general information for educational purposes only. This is not |
| 0:22.0 | professional advice and should not be used in lieu of obtaining advice from a qualified |
| 0:26.0 | health care provider. And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 128. I'm |
| 0:34.3 | your co-host Dr. Kane. And I'm Dr. Patel. And the title of today's episode is Introducing Helix Talks, 2020, Drug Superlative Awards. |
| 0:44.6 | Today we're going to be presenting a handful of awards that are superlative awards. |
| 0:49.9 | So kind of most likely to or most known for type awards in the category of medications that are on the market. |
| 0:58.5 | And Dr. Kane, we're not too far from all the award seasons. |
| 1:01.8 | You know, the Emmys just happened, the Grammys just happened. |
| 1:05.5 | And now we're going to have Oscars happening. |
| 1:08.8 | So this episode is right on time to talk about that. Now, I might not be |
| 1:12.8 | dressed enough for the awards, but I think I'm super pumped and excited to talk about some of these |
| 1:17.9 | pet peeves we have. Love it. And, you know, Dr. Rital, I think it's worth noting how prestigious |
| 1:23.6 | these awards are going to be. So, you know, for an award to really have meeting, |
| 1:28.0 | there must be an involved process behind getting votes for the award. So I think in the interest |
| 1:33.0 | of transparency to our listeners, you know, Dr. Patel, you and I convene hundreds of healthcare |
| 1:38.6 | professionals virtually, of course, to identify superlative award titles. We used a modified Delphi technique to make sure that everyone was in agreement. |
| 1:47.6 | We had hours of debate. |
| 1:49.0 | I'm sure you remember all of those hours of debate. |
| 1:50.7 | And we came up with award titles, sent a survey of those awards to thousands of health care |
| 1:56.6 | providers from multiple professions in the spirit of interprofessionalism. |
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