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intoxicação medicamentosa
A importância do farmacêutico na prevenção de intoxicações medicamentosas – uma revisão integrativa
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Introduction: Medicines are among the main causes of intoxication identified by the Toxicological Information and Assistance Centers, occupying the first position among the agents that cause intoxication in Brazil since 1994. The pharmacist must focus on prevention, and its function is to identify and solve problems related to medications, guiding the patient on drug interactions and also on toxicity. Thus, this research aims to raise publications that show the importance of the pharmacist in the prevention of drug intoxications. Review: This is an exploratory bibliographic review, organized in an integrative literature review. The data survey comes from scientific productions published from 2018 to 2021, in Portuguese, indexed in the databases of MEDLINE-PUBMED, LILACS, SCIELO and the Ministry of Health's electronic address. Discussion: Suicide attempt prevails as the main cause of drug poisoning in the country. The fragile regulation of advertising about medicines and the ease in acquiring drugs without a medical or pharmaceutical prescription are among the causes that contribute to intoxications. The northern region has the lowest number of drug poisoning notifications in Brazil, and Tocantins is the state with the highest amount of drug poisoning in the northern region. From 2016 to 2020, 714 intoxications by toxic agents were registered, of these, about 44% of the grand total, were caused by drugs in Tocantins. Final considerations: The findings of this research proved the importance of the pharmacist in dispensing medications and in pharmacotherapeutic follow-up, as this professional can guarantee the quality and effectiveness of medications in the treatment, thus avoiding side effects, drug interactions and even toxic syndromes.
Keywords: pharmaceutical attention, drug intoxication, exogenous intoxication.
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