Diseño del área de nutrición parenteral en el servicio de farmacia del Hospital Andino de Riobamba.

Abstract

The aim of this qualification work was to design the area of parenteral nutrition in the Andean Hospital of Riobamba. In the situational diagnosis of the process of elaboration, direct observation techniques were used, survey applied to the medical personnel, nurses and pharmacy. Data is collect on the basis of benchmarks with parameters established through a check list. For the design of the area of sterile formulations and the realization of standard operating procedures, the physical space and the specific conditions with bibliographic basis, international standards and the hospital were considered. It is evidenced that the nurses are in charge of the preparation of parenteral nutrition in the operating room of the hospital, despite being an aseptic place does not meet the specifications that the standards pose, neither with basis parameters to follow, nor have a Protocol established for the preparation of this mixture, so it is necessary to incorporate the sterile area into the health unit. The Designed area has an area for preparation of mixtures and a second for aseptic procedures and administrative processes, which meet the minimum requirements for the elaboration of these safe and Quality formulations. Under the follow-up of protocols developed for process validation, area cleaning, preparation, labelling and quality control of intravenous mixtures. With the background of this study was determined the importance of the area, which will ensure the elaboration procedures that involve the pharmacist in the care of the user ensuring safety and quality, contributing to the process of re-categorization of the hospital, based on the obtained, the area should be implemented as a unit of intravenous mixtures where parenteral nutrition and other sterile formulation are prepared, in addition to updating the standard operating procedures according to the formulation to be made.