Worth REPOSTING Re: Top 200 drugs ...more silly questions

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

This is from LAST year at this time!!!

It may help some of you out there, especially given the most recent question

about the need to study Trade/generics/classifications and pharmcology.

PLEASE READ BELOW!

> >

> > Hello again :-)

> >

> > I'd like to thank everybody for great advises on how to

> memorize

> > the drugs. I have couple more silly questions if anybody could help.

> >

> > -What actually are the top 200 drugs that we need to know? Does Top

> > 200 drugs mean by prescription count of the current year? ( I took

> my

> > Pharm tech course back in '02 so my drug cards are very, very out

> of

> > date..they even have Baycol and Claritin in there) Do we go by top

> 200

> > generic or top 200 brand name drugs because they're not the same. (

> > For example,in 2007, #1 for generic is hydrocodone but #1 for brand

> > drug is Lipitor ) I'm so sorry my question is quite confusing! I

> just wanna

> > know what's the best list I could rely on.

> >

> > -How important is it to know each drug's therapeutic class? I find

> > myself " wing it " everytime when it comes to meds for hypertension

> (

> > What would be the best way to differentiate between beta blocker/

> > CCB/diuretic/ ACE Inhibitor and so on.....)

> >

> > Thank you so much again and have a great day :-)

> > Niratsa

> >

>