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Antoni Broto-Sumalla1, Manel Rabanal-Tornero2, Milagros García-Peláez3
1Servicio de Farmacia, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, Terrassa, Barcelona, España.
Background And Objective:
Antidotes may have a relevant role in acute intoxication management and the time until its administration can influence patient survival.
Patients And Method:
Study conducted by a questionnaire sent in early 2015 to 70 hospitals in Catalonia providing emergency services. Qualitative availability on each antidote was considered adequate when present in at least 80% of hospitals. The quantitative availability was considered adequate when at least 80% of hospitals had the number of units of antidote recommended.
Results:
Lower complexity hospitals (level A) showed a percentage of adequate qualitative and quantitative availability of 66.7 and 42.9% respectively. In higher complexity hospitals (level B) qualitative and quantitative availability was adequate in 64.5 and 38.7% of the antidotes respectively. Data showed no differences between the different health regions as well as a positive correlation (p<.05) between the number of emergencies attended and the percentage of adequate qualitative availability.
Conclusions:
The availability of antidotes in Catalonia hospitals is generally low and shows differences across health regions and depending on level of complexity.
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