A third of emergency room visits due to unwanted affections of medicines

-the work of the pharmacist is the key to improve the desired results in the use of drugs.

-Galicia patients associations very positively valued the attention farmacéUtica receive.

Vigo, 2011-September A third of emergency room visits due to an unwanted effect of medications, and more than 70% of these unwanted effects are avoidable. The work of the pharmacist, given her position very close to the patients health agent, is therefore key to achieve improved results in the use of medications.

These statements have been made by the specialist and pharmacist, Adrián Acuña, accompanied by Borja García de Bikuña Landa, President of the Foundation Pharmaceutical Care Spain.

Both have moderate the table the patient with the pharmacist: what we demand? ”, held in the National Congress of care pharmaceutical Foundation Pharmaceutical Care Spain which takes place from September 29 to October 1 in Vigo.

Experts have pointed out that the great risk that we face is that they lose sight of the fundamental axis of any health system, to the raison d ’ être, the leading actor: the patient. In fact, any process that takes place within a health system has no as ultimately improve the quality of life of the patient is a redundant Act, a waste of resources ”.

During the month of September there have been several charlas-coloquio to patients and associations of patients in A Coruña and Vigo with the motto: pharmaceutical care, find out what your usual pharmacist can do for you ”. They made a presentation on the pharmaceutical care in a simple way, with examples tailored to each represented pathology and opened a time of Symposium in which patients and pharmacists exchanged views.

These views are reflected in a round table of the Congress that has been voice patients, leaving to give its opinion on their relationship with their usual pharmacists, telling what their needs, giving his opinion on what final of pharmaceutical care implementation will both in the quality of the offered service as in the attainment of therapeutic goals.

In particular, the invited speakers have been Luis García Gómez, President delegate of the Association for the prevention of Glaucoma, Manuel Martínez Barral, President of the Association of Vigo diabetics and President of the Federation of associations of diabetics in Galicia, Antonia Bastero coasts, President Association of prevention of Glaucoma Galicia and Manuel Emilio Ferreiro Prieto, the Association of Cardiópatas and Anticoagulados of Coruña.

All of them have shown their satisfaction with the service received at pharmacies ”. “In particular, Martínez Barral has congratulated because the recipe she electronic has greatly improved the dispensation of medicine”.

Antonia Bastero, for its part, has described the pharmaceutical care as a good service ” like your table mates who have praised the proximity and knowledge of the pharmaceutical ”.