Post-Apocalyptic Formulary: A Georgetown University IRB-approved Survey

[Sahana Chakravartti]

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Imagine you're the healthcare provider for survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. If you could have a lifetime supply of 20 essential medications to take with you, which drugs would you choose?

Georgetown University Medical Center’s PharmedOut is conducting a survey on prescribing choices in a hypothetical scenario, and would greatly appreciate your participation. And please spread the word to your peers and colleagues!

Find the survey here: https://bit.ly/Top20Drugs.

Georgetown University Medical Center’s PharmedOut advances evidence-based prescribing and educates healthcare professionals and students about pharmaceutical and medical device marketing practices. Learn more here: www.pharmedout.org.

 

[nimbus]

Hopefully PharmedOut is not just a bunch of bean counters trying to limit our access to essential drugs like sugammadex.

As for the survey, here’s a start.

https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1374779/retrieve

 

[Zekchar]

Imagine you're the healthcare provider for survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. If you could have a lifetime supply of 20 essential medications to take with you, which drugs would you choose?

Georgetown University Medical Center’s PharmedOut is conducting a survey on prescribing choices in a hypothetical scenario, and would greatly appreciate your participation. And please spread the word to your peers and colleagues!

Find the survey here: https://bit.ly/Top20Drugs.

Georgetown University Medical Center’s PharmedOut advances evidence-based prescribing and educates healthcare professionals and students about pharmaceutical and medical device marketing practices. Learn more here: www.pharmedout.org.

What is it with every company wanting survey and or feedback for free. You want answers? Pay me. You want 15 minutes of my time? My hourly rate is $320/hr so Venmo me $80 and i'll give you my 15 minutes. Otherwise take your "random drawings for a $50 Amazon gift card" and shove it.

 

[Iso4ane]

Ethanol is a drug right, I would like lots and lots of it. Good for psych problems, good for antibiosis/sterilization, good for inducing anesthesia, etc.

 

[Ronin786]

Ketamine, a statin, an opioid and spend the rest on abx.

If you can't cure it with antibiotics or do surgery on it with ketamine then tough luck.

 

[Pappy Van Propofol]

Lots of KoolAid. Do we really want to survive in a post-apocalyptic society crapping our pants with cholera.

 

[Bryan O’Blivion]

I haven’t really thought about retirement much other than in an abstract, I should be better at investing sort of way, but if there’s an apocalypse, I plan on not practicing anesthesia anymore.

Short answer: Ketamine.

 

[deleted875186]

Interesting thought experiment …. If we replaced all anesthesia with ketamine only anesthesia, would anesthesia be safer, and patients wouldn’t book unnecessary surgeries and limit their elective surgeries because the wake up and recovery from ketamine anesthesia is much more unpleasant.

 

[gasdoc77]

Interesting thought experiment …. If we replaced all anesthesia with ketamine only anesthesia, would anesthesia be safer, and patients wouldn’t book unnecessary surgeries and limit their elective surgeries because the wake up and recovery from ketamine anesthesia is much more unpleasant.

How many "probed by aliens" stories would come outta GI🤣

 

[nimbus]

Interesting thought experiment …. If we replaced all anesthesia with ketamine only anesthesia, would anesthesia be safer, and patients wouldn’t book unnecessary surgeries and limit their elective surgeries because the wake up and recovery from ketamine anesthesia is much more unpleasant.

Not necessarily unpleasant for everyone. People use ketamine recreationally.