#176 Constipation Medications: 5 Pearls Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
Core IM Team
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
🔹 High-yield reversible causes of constipation? (02:26)
🔹 Which type of fiber is more helpful? And is more hydration really better? And bulk-forming laxatives (9:03)
🔹 Osmotic vs Stimulant Laxatives (15:06)
🔹 Suppositories and enemas? (25:39)
🔹Best practices with opioid induced constipation (34:05)
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Tags: CoreIM, IMCore, Gastroenterology, GI Pharmacology, Digestive Health, Primary Care, Medical Education, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Medical Student, Laxatives, Stool Softeners, Senna, Bisacodyl, Polyethylene Glycol, Bowel Regimen, Magnesium Citrate, Lactulose
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| 0:56.2 | Core I Am, Thypearls podcast, bring you high-yield evidence-based pearls. Today, we're going to talk |
| 1:01.2 | all things constipation and constipation vets. I'm Dr. Schrader Betty, and I'm joined by. |
| 1:06.4 | Hi, I'm Dr. Kalila Pice, an internal medicine resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. |
| 1:12.0 | And it's an interesting topic because I can't say that there's one particular specialty that |
| 1:16.7 | owns constipation treatment. Is it GI? Is it the internist who treats it every day? Is it the nurses |
| 1:23.1 | who are administering these bowel regimens PR PRN, and giving the enumas? |
| 1:27.5 | Or is it the pharmacist on the team? |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.4 | So we actually sat down with all of them, and why don't we let them introduce themselves? |
| 1:34.6 | My name is Alan Lee. |
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