Jul 11, 2021
Free Drug Suffix PDF
In this episode, I review the PDFs you can trust to give you the correct drug prefixes, infixes, and suffixes (endings). You don't know what kind of grades the people who put up those free electronic notecards earned, you can trust this PDF.
Link for Complete Drug Suffix PDF: https://www.memorizingpharm.com/drugsuffixpdf
Link for Memorizing Pharmacology Drug Suffixes by Body System: https://www.memorizingpharm.com/drug-prefixes-and-suffixes
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Alright, welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology Podcast. I wanted to talk about getting a drug suffix PDF. I have a free one that I can direct you to, and that's very accurate. That's the real problem. So first of all, I just wanted to kind of address a couple of emails I've received about where people can find the audiobooks. Sometimes it's just easier to search by my name because I have 26 books that I've written, but Tony Guerra, T-O-N-Y G-U-E-R-R-A. Again, I'm a pharmacist who appreciates everyone's support, and I wanted to use this podcast as a way to give back.
Memorizing Pharmacology, the introduction to the top 200 drugs, and Memorizing Pharmacology Mnemonics are the most popular. Strong Residency Interview Questions, Answers, and Rationales is a little bit more for somebody going into residency. How to Pronounce Drug Names If English Isn't Your First Language (it wasn't my first language), so it's just a different way to know how to pronounce things if that's a struggle.
And then Memorizing Pharmacology Questions, Answers, and Rationales Books 1 to 7. Just to let you know, Book 1 is pretty long; it's 18 hours. If you really want to get into the weeds with pharmacology and get quizzed on it, that might be a good choice. But those are the top five. But definitely, Memorizing Pharmacology if you've never had pharmacology before.
So let's talk a little bit about the website. You can go to memorizingpharm.com; you can access all my books, the podcast. If you need an online pharmacology class, I do teach one, and again, it's at a community college, so community college prices. You'll be in class with sometimes pre-nursing students, nursing students, PA students, many students who just want to understand pharmacology, but again, it's that community college price that a lot of people like.
In terms of prefixes and suffixes, what I did was I tried to make it a little bit easier just to find it on its own, and I can put this in the show notes, but it's 'memorizingpharm.com/drug-prefixes-and-suffixes.' Now, I know that's a mouthful: memorizingpharm.com/drug-prefixes-and-suffixes. This list is the one that comes from the books, so all of the drugs that I've put in the Memorizing Pharmacology book and Memorizing Pharmacology Mnemonics book, these I have ordered by body system or drug class. The nice thing is that I do everything always in the same order. As I talk through this podcast, I'll talk about how if you've got a patient on 20 medications or 25 medications, maybe you're working with geriatrics, what you want to definitely do is put that list in this order: G-M-R-I-N-C-E, or 'G-M Rinse': Gastrointestinal, Musculoskeletal, Respiratory, Immune, Neuro, Cardio, Endocrine. That way, when you are studying for something, it's always in the same place. It's kind of like having seven different rooms in your house, and you know exactly where those rooms are and what's in those rooms.
So, let's talk about these. You can obviously read them, but I want to make clear what they are. 'Liximab' is the ending, okay, to a specific GI drug for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. 'Peg' comes from polyethylene glycol, which is an over-the-counter product that's safe for young populations. But there are 'pegylated' compounds, which is a little bit different reason that you're using it. And as I go through the episodes, I'll start linking the episodes to this list. 'Prazol' is the next one I'll be going over, so Episode 5 will be on the 'prazoles' or the proton pump inhibitors and talking a little bit about how 'prazole' can get... If you'll see some of the electronic drug cards that have just 'ozo,' 'azole,' and that's not correct. That'll get it wrong because if you have 'azole' at the end, then it could be 'presele' from GI; it could be 'conazole' from Immune, which is a type of antifungal, and if you're in the Neuropsych section, it could be 'piprazole,' which is an antipsychotic. So what I really cared about was getting a list of drug prefixes and suffixes that you can trust, and this one is the one that goes to the books.
But I do have a complete, free PDF that you can use, and the link is a lot easier. So memorizingpharm.com/drug-suffix-pdf. So, 'drug-suffix,' 'pdf,' all together, no slashes, no anything like that. And what it is, is a complete 60-page list of drug prefixes and suffixes. What I will do is I'll keep updating this PDF as I add the episodes, so that not only do you have the list, but you have the link to the podcast episode if you want to learn a little bit more about it. But that is a 60-page-long drug suffix list, and so it's what I did was I set it up so this PDF, in particular, if you are on your mobile device, it's really easy to use the 'Find' feature to find what you need or to find the drug that you need or the ending that you need. And then, if you find that you don't find the ending, then you know that maybe it was one that was incorrect or if you find the ending is different than what you expected.
So, let me give you examples of both of those. If you try 'in,' 'ine,' you will find hundreds of drugs, and the reason for that is that 'in' is not a stem, it's not an ending, it's just something that happens to be at the end of many drugs. It's incomplete, so antihistamines end with 'een,' antidepressants end with 'in,' morphine, which is a narcotic analgesic, ends with 'enord,' so too many drugs end with 'en' that's not a useful stem. Another one that I just saw on a test prep website, which is really bad, that the NCLEX test prep website has something like this, but they had just 'fil' rather than 'upfield,' and they had 'usin' instead of 'zosin,' and so they were incomplete and incorrect. So this 60-page drug suffix list is accurate, it's correct, and it's very easily searchable.
But if you are on mobile, it's going to be... You might be like, 'Okay, where is it?' You just have to scroll down past the Memorizing Farm image, past the Memorizing Pharmacology Mnemonics image, and then here you can see the free complete
60-page-long drug suffix list as a PDF. Just click on it, and it'll pop up for you. And then, like I said, I'll start updating those links as we go. But this is what it looks like, and I'll just kind of talk a little bit about how you can use it. So when you are looking at this suffix, and you see something like 'abean,' and you see 'well, go look for 'arabin cytobean,'' what this is letting you know is, 'Hey, sometimes people think that's the ending, but it isn't.' What you want to do is go to this complete ending, something like 'ack,' 'ac' for 'diclofenac,' for example, which is one that we commonly use or 'voltaren.' This is an anti-inflammatory agent, acetic acid derivative, it's a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. And what I'll do is, as I'm kind of going through these, I'll also turn them into plain English, which is a little bit of a concern, as some of this is more chemistry language and we need to translate that into plain English. But most of them do have that kind of therapeutic sense to it. So we'll use 'adol,' for example, so 'tramadol' is a mixed opiate receptor agonist and antagonist. So, 'tramadol' would be the one that we're thinking about there. Again, this is the full 60-page one, it's readily searchable, and you're welcome to use it anytime. And that's again at memorizingpharm.com/drug-suffix-pdf.
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