Farmacovigilancia en pacientes polimedicados con enfermedades crónicas

Abstract

The bibliographic research of this work was based on the analysis of the case of a patient with multiple diseases, including some classified as chronic diseases, this patient received eleven medications per day, being a polymedicated patient, for this reason, the objectives was to identify these drug interactions and to propose strategies to prevent the emergence of new diseases that could further compromise the patient's health. Among the interactions identified, it was determined that some of these could cause serious problems to the patient's health, such as the appearance of hemorrhagic episodes, reduction of the bioavailability of the drug, increase of the sedative effect, increasing the risk of respiratory depression, among others, and to avoid the appearance of these conditions that would aggravate the patient's health, pharmacological strategies were proposed, such as spacing the time of drug administration, suggesting laboratory tests, changing the prescribed drug and adjusting the dose of drug administration.