Abstract
The pharmacist from the community pharmacy plays a key role in the case of patients who seek directly for pathologies related to pain. Being a health specialist, he has the ability to offer pharmaceutical healthcare for drugs that need a medical prescription and also for the ones that are registered as OTC’s. Ibuprofen (IBU) is a part of the drug group called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) being registered in Romania under 17 pharmaceutical formulation by the National Agency of Drugs and Medical Devices. Due to its pharmacological profile which consists of a low risk of gastrointestinal side effects, IBU is an OTC recommended and frequently prescribed for decreasing the low and moderate pain. World Health Organization (WHO) indicates IBU as a drug that can be used to babies aged over three months. Through this paper, we try to analyze the pharmacist’s vision from the community pharmacy in IBU recommendation. In this paper were mentioned some legal aspects that are linked to the pharmacist competences, and also its approach regarding IBU recommendation during pregnancy and breastfeeding and also to children and to a category of patients who have various associated pathologies.
Highlights
Millions of people take the threshold of a pharmacy to get their medications available with or without prescription for pain associated pathologies
This study aims to approach the pharmacist point of view from the community pharmacy as a specialist in healthcare in the ibuprofen recommendation in some painrelated conditions
Pharmaceutical healthcare – legal aspects In Romania, the pharmacist profession is exerted under Law 95/2006 and one of the activities provided in Article 568-point g) is referring to providing information and counseling the patient
Summary
Millions of people take the threshold of a pharmacy to get their medications available with or without prescription for pain associated pathologies. The patients usually come in the pharmacy to request from the pharmacist a product known, but on many occasions they ask pharmaceutical care regarding their pathology. In both cases, the pharmacist plays a key role in choosing the product designed for. On many occasions the pharmacist represents the last chain of the health medical system When he must give medications upon request it is recommended to perform a short anamnesis of the patient regarding the other pathologies known or other medication used chronically. The pharmacist can make recommendations in moderate and severe pain when he can give as an adjuvant an NSAID and can direct the patient to a doctor to prescribe an opioid [8]. As a result of the pharmacological predictable pharmacologic profile, the pharmacist as a specialist in healthcare, recommends IBU to kids for easy to moderate pain such as headache, toothache, throat ache and, earache and in febrile episodes belonging to colds and after vaccination [24,25,26]
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