ACE inhibitors end with “pril”- PTCB preparation-
Good morning this is dr kidwell and today we’re going to learn all about ace inhibitors using visual images and stories that will help us remember there are five main types of blood pressure pills and today we’re going to talk about the ace inhibitors but instead of a nice boring lecture we’re going to learn all about ace inhibitors by making a story one april
Fool’s day a jester named april decide to play a joke he places an ace of hearts playing card in his mouth and he coughs it up here you can see him coughing now the ace of hearts and the a in april they both represent angiotensin converting enzyme or ace inhibitors so the ace of hearts and the a in april likewise the prill in april stands for the last part of
These medications the ace inhibitors include lycinopril bonazapril captopril enalapril and so on you can tell that these are ace inhibitors because all of them end with pril so if there’s a test question and there’s a medication with peril at the end think april april’s fools the gesture coughing up the ace of hearts so you know it’s an ace inhibitor likewise if
The question talks about an ace inhibitor think about the ace of hearts and that’s in april fools so the medication must end with pril one of the most common side effects of ace inhibitors are a chronic cough and that’s part of the reason we have this gesture coughing up the ace of hearts because his april fool’s joke goes so well the gesture decides to repeat his
Joke he puts a bar of his zest soap into his mouth and he coughs it up now why are we learning about zest because the number three medication in the united states is the cinepril brand name is zestrill so the way he remembers zest is he’s coughing up this bar of zest soap let’s say you have a question which medication is an ace inhibitor think back to the image of
The gesture plane in april fool’s trick coughing up an ace inhibitor and think of the key word here april april because every medication that’s an ace inhibitor ends with pril so no pril no pril guess what bonas april captopril lacinapril so these three are all three ace inhibitors because they end with the pril the next question is what is a common side effect
Of ace inhibitors think back to your image the gesture is coughing up the ace of hearts so the side effect is not low potassium or swollen legs etc it is chronic cough what is the brand name for lycinopril the number three most prescribed medication in the united states and the number one top anti-hypertensive think back to your image of the gesture he’s coughing
Up an ace of spades and he’s also coughing up a bar of zest soap so the medication’s name starts with z-e-s-t which is zestrill now why are we even learning about high blood pressure pills if you look at this list from 2019 the number one prescribed medication in the united states is a category of medications that are used to treat blood pressure making up 19 of
Prescriptions so if you’re studying for a pharmacy test start off with blood pressure pills and go down on the list if you watch my other videos we’re going to start here and we’re going to do other topics as well there are five types of medications you use to treat high blood pressure today we talked about the ace inhibitors my next video is going to be on the
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