Emergency Medicine physician Southern Maine Healthcare Scarborough, Maine
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Session Description: Ozempic and Trulicity have broken into the lay press and social media, fueled by celebrities flaunting remarkable weight loss thanks to the drugs. While these medications have not been FDA approved as weight loss agents (Wegovy was in 2021), their popularity for this indication have swelled to the level of causing drug shortages. This Breve Dulce will review these drugs, their side effect profiles, and what the EM clinician needs to know to care patients on these medications for weight loss.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the mechanism of action of the GLP-1 analogs and how they lead to weight loss.
recognize the common and more serious side effects of these medications and how to manage them.
Understand the mechanism of action of the GLP-1 analogs and how they lead to weight loss.