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This podcast is produced by the pharmacy faculty members to supplement study material for students learning the top 200 drugs.

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pearls and discussions from practicing pharmacists will help you study for your next drug quiz.

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University of Medicine and Science. And now on to the show. Welcome to week 10 of Rosalin Franklin

University's Top 200 Dr. Podcast. I'm your co-host, Dr. Kane.

I'm Dr. Patel.

And I'm Dr. Michner.

And today we'll be talking about agents for COPD and asthma.

Most of these agents are inhaled.

There are several different types of inhalers available,

such as meter dose inhaler,

which is shortly known as MDI,

dry powder inhaler, handi inhaler, and nabularizer

solutions. However, certain products have oral formulation such as tablets and solution available.

So one of the advantages of having an inhaled version as opposed to a tablet is that we get

local effect and we can minimize the adverse effect profile of that drug. So we see this a lot

with our inhaled corticosteroids, for example, where we get a lot of concentration to the lung

and not a lot to other places of the body.

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