Conciliación del tratamiento farmacológico en paciente pluripatológico

Abstract

The well-being and health of the patient is one of the primary requirements for all health personnel, so it should be sought to improve the quality of life and prevent side effects, adverse reactions, avoiding the suffering of the patient, one of the processes that can improving the quality of life is the reconciliation of medications. The purpose of this research was to implement the reconciliation of medications in a geriatric multi-pathological patient who is polymedicated, an analysis of the patient's condition was carried out, identifying each one of the multi-pathologies associating them with the medical prescription, given the number of pathologies the patient is prescribed Due to a number of drugs, which is understood by polypharmacy, one of the main errors in the reconciliation of medications is polypharmacy and multiple pathological patients, elderly patients being more prone given the functional deterioration of their organs and physical performance, following proceeded to search for scientific articles based on the reconciliation of medications to define the correct methodology for pharmacological treatment using the criteria of Beers, Stop, Start proposing the adequate treatment of the patient with a reconciled medication, the non-pharmacological treatment was implemented and be pr He opposed strategies for good adherence to treatment and it was concluded that the conciliation of medication is of vital importance before prescribing a treatment, change or new drug to a patient since it could reduce adverse reactions and even death.