Pharmaceutical intervention in drug prescriptions in the intensive care unit
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Unidade de Terapia Intensiva. Assistência ao paciente. Competência clínica.Abstract
Objective: The present pharmacist in hospital pharmacy through their clinical actions assists the medical staff in order to try to ensure a better treatment through pharmaceutical interventions. Therefore, this study aims to discuss these pharmaceutical, to aim the rational use of drugs and the importance of the pharmacist clinical intensivist.
Methods: Based on the evaluation of 94 medical prescriptions of adults patients of both sexes by varying in age from 20 and 45 years, hospitalized in the ICU of a large hospital in Recife, Pernambuco. In these evaluations, 56 interventions were made. The collection of the data for this present study included the period from 03/06/2013 to 28/06/2013.
Results: Almost 100% of the interventions were accepted, and those interventions most of them were related to infusion time and volume dilution, soon after,came the drugs administered through a nasogastric tube (NG tube) in tablet dosage form, drug interactions and prescription errors.
Conclusion: From the results presented it can be inferred that the pharmacist is more and more inserted in the joint clinic. And that these changes bring proven benefits, as from the point of view of the clinical, as economic point of view, since there is a therapy more faithful to that desired by the prescriber, as there is also a more rational use of drugs reducing probable losses.
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