Evaluación del uso racional de analgésicos en pacientes post quirúrgicos del área de cirugía del Hospital General Docente de Riobamba

Abstract

The objective of this research project was to evaluate the rational use of analgesics in post-surgical patients in the surgery area of the Riobamba Provincial General Teaching Hospital in the period July - December 2019. This project was retrospective, cross-sectional, for which 385 medical records of patients undergoing surgical procedures, who were administered analgesics, were analyzed. For the collection of information, a database created in Excel 365 was used, whose information was correlated with established protocols. The results obtained detected that: the rational use of analgesics in correlation with the established protocols is fulfilled in 76% of the patients, seven different problems related to medications (PRMs) were also obtained, the main ones being: Administration of analgesics without prior protection, failure in pain treatment and simultaneous use of analgesics from the same group, errors that, classified according to the Third Consensus of Granada, belong to the prescription stage in 100%. At the end of the evaluation, it was determined that the irrational use of this type of medication can generate negative reactions to the medication, and complicate the clinical picture and state of health of the patient. Due to this, the joint intervention of the health professional team is considered important, to reduce the percentage of errors, maximize the effectiveness of the pharmacological therapy used and improve the quality of patient care.