This week, our Inside EMS cohosts discuss the rise in popularity of semiglutide drugs 鈥� like Ozempic 鈥� used for weight loss. Chris and Kelly discuss what providers should know about the use of these drugs, for their personal use and how complications may present in patients.
Top quotes
- 鈥淚f you鈥檙e using semiglutide drugs purely as your only means of weight loss, you鈥檙e going to rebound.鈥�
- 鈥淵ou eat at odd hours, you eat at odd intervals. You eat something nuked in a microwave at a 7/11. Those are horrific eating habits, and it teaches your body to just hoard calories and food, and you wind up gaining weight that way. There鈥檚 a lot of fat people in EMS, myself included, that are proof of that.鈥�
- 鈥淎 lot of drugs out there came on the market for something and now we鈥檙e using it for something else.鈥�
What you need to know about Ozempic and other forms of semaglutide
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