 What is colchicin? Hey guys, my name is Boris. I'm a physician assistant and I wanted to share some pants review with you. So these are the note cards that I personally use to study for the pants. I don't know how many videos are going to be in this series, but multiple. So let's just pick a card at random and review a little bit of material for the pants. What is colchicin? I'll give you five seconds to figure out the answer to what is colchicin? What is it used for? Okay. Colchicin is an anti-inflammatory, anti-uric acid drug. So why would you give somebody an anti-inflammatory and anti-uric acid drug? What painful condition is it caused by a buildup of uric acid crystals within a joint space? Gout. G-O-U-T gout. So colchicin is an anti-inflammatory, anti-uric acid drug used in the symptomatic management of gout. Bonus question for this one is what do the crystals for gout look like? What do uric acid crystals look like? Negatively bifaryngent. I forget if there's any other buzzwords, but they're basically little needles that you can see. And so they could be described as negatively bifaryngent. They could just show you a picture and they're these little needle thingies. That's going to be gout. As opposed to its similar presentation, however, very different pathology, pseudogout is calcium crystals and they're more like these, I think they're pentagonal or hexagonal type things, but they look nothing like gout crystals. So those two are going to be usually, if it's a multiple choice question, gout and pseudogout or negatively bifaryngent and then whatever describes the calcium crystals are going to be often in one question. So you should definitely note both. So whenever you learn a disease pathology treatment X, Y and Z, you should also know whatever is very similar to it because that's what's going to come as a choice on the multiple choice exam. So definitely study, you know, the pathology, but also anything and everything that's very similar to that pathology so that you know the exact small minute details that make a difference between each of these different things. So one more time. What is colchicine? Colchicine is an anti-inflammatory anti-uric acid medication given to people with acute episodes of gout.