Iatrogenia medicamentosa em idosos: análise da equipe São João II de Conselheiro Lafaiete

Abstract

The analysis of the medication iatrogeny in the area of performance of health professionals São João II of Conselheiro Lafaiete, shows the difficulty that these professionals find in the therapeutical handling of aged. The objective was to verify the occurrence of the iatrogeny in a group of old people with grievance most common in this age, and thus extend the reasoning for all the aged ones of the area. A group of ten aged carriers of comorbidades and overdose of medicines users was selected. With the simple handbook revision, the presence of iatrogenys, relating them with the type of medicine, dose and time of use, was identify. The medicines had been analyzed considering the limits between the therapeutical and adverse effect. The priority of the analysis is the understanding of the origin of the problem, in other words, inside the families and community. With the gotten information we realized that we need changes of paradigms, which must be directed for the vision of the individual as a whole. This way it is necessary to act in benefit of the aged ones and to modify the current scene of the iatrogenys.