Pharmaceutical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in a mid-size hospital

Farmacia hospitalaria : órgano oficial de expresión científica de la Sociedad Española de Farmacia Hospitalaria
Laura Corregidor-LunaBenito García-Díaz

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to report the experience of the Department of Hospital Pharmacy of a mid-size hospital during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The human and material resources available in a mid-size hospital were more limited than in larger hospitals of the region. In this article, we describe how this Department of Hospital Pharmacy was reorganized to meet the increase in activity, the strategies developed and the  lessons learned for future pandemics. The COVID-19 pandemic had a higher  impact in Leganes, a city in the south of Madrid, with a population of 190,000.  In the face of the dramatic increase in the proportion of patients attending our  hospital between March and April 2020, the Severo Ochoa University Hospital  increased the number of beds by 24.5% and fitted out new premises inside and  outside the hospital (sports centers). The mean number of patients seen in our  Emergency Department every day passed from 70-80 to a peak of 286 patients, with 652 hospitalized patients. The situation of emergency created by  this infectious disease, with management protocols changing constantly, had a  dramatic impact on the activity of hospital pharmacies. Thus, the pandemic has  affected areas of economic mana...Continue Reading

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