Diseño de un plan piloto para la implementación de la unidad de farmacotecnia para la elaboración de fórmulas magistrales en las áreas de pediatría y neonatología en el Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso-Cuenca, 2021

Abstract

The magistral formulas have always been essential in modern medical attention, in which they are focused on the specific medical needs of patients. Furthermore, there are regulations and protocols to be used within hospitals of Ecuadorian publichealth care services, however, there are no such services in the whole hospitals around Ecuador. For instance, The “Vicente Corral Moscoso” Hospital does not have the advantage such as the pharmacotechnic area, consequently, the magistral formulas are required to prepare outside from the hospital. Because of this necessity, the current investigation pretends to design an pharmacotechnic area through a pilot plan to develop the magistral formulas for the priority areas including pediatric and neonatology in accordance with the particular requerimentes from this health center. According to aforementioned, in the first place, they were carried out a theorial bibliographic evaluations about the conditions regardeing to the pharmacotechnic and the magistral formulas around the world in order to understand the importance about that. Aditionally, In the second place, and in this sense like a baseline of researches were conducted an initial diagnosis about the magistral formutalion actual in the hospital through of the review patients of medical records who were attended since July 1 to December31, 2020; in like manner, the purchases historical reviews of magistral formulas in the hospital, obteining the frecuency with which were prescibed during this time period and the results were 32,23%, likewise, there were observed that among the prescribed formulas, the one that shows the greatest frequency is the oral liquid calcium carbonate medicine, which was also observed that in the history of purchases of the hospital they upgrade to an amount of 2316 units of magistral formulas, for which it is feasible the implementation of the pharmacotechnics area within the hospital.