Prednisolone Pharmacology
Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals
Eric Christianson, PharmD; Pharmacology Expert and Clinical Pharmacist
5 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, I discuss prednisolone (Orapred, Pediapred) pharmacology, adverse effects, practice pearls, and drug interactions.
Prednisolone is a systemic corticosteroid that can cause insomnia, elevations in blood sugars, and numerous effects if used long-term.
CYP3A4 is an important enzyme in the breakdown of prednisolone. Inhibitors or inducers may raise or lower drug levels respectively.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm your host pharmacist, Eric Christensen. |
| 0:05.8 | Thank you so much for listening today. |
| 0:08.2 | As always, go check out Real Life Pharmacology.com. |
| 0:11.5 | Grab your free 31 page PDF. |
| 0:14.1 | Great little study guide, refresher. |
| 0:15.8 | If you're in school, going through pharmacology classes, |
| 0:18.6 | or if you're out in practice, |
| 0:20.4 | just a good |
| 0:21.0 | refresher on the top 200 drugs and some of the most common clinical pearls that you see on |
| 0:27.1 | exams, as well as things that you see, certainly in real practice as well. And then we've got a great |
| 0:34.0 | price on the Medid 101 Guide to Nursing Pharmacology. |
| 0:39.0 | Great kind of cheat sheet notes, much more in depth. |
| 0:42.7 | We've got questions at the end of each chapter as well to kind of assess your knowledge. |
| 0:48.4 | Great gift for somebody going through pharmacology classes and or somebody in school trying to get up to speed |
| 0:57.5 | and learn pharmacology, which I hope certainly this podcast has helped as well. |
| 1:02.1 | So again, go check out MedEd 101 Guide to Nursing Pharmacology on Amazon. |
| 1:08.3 | All right, the drug of the day today is prednisolone. Now, I have done prednisone in the past. |
| 1:17.9 | Okay. So that brings up a really, really important point that these two drugs are not the same, |
| 1:25.5 | but there definitely is a lot of similarities. |
| 1:29.2 | So we'll talk about that, and I have seen errors come up with prednisalone versus prednisone |
| 1:35.7 | in clinical practice. |
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