The Hospital Salvador B. Gautier opened this Tuesday Respiratory Care Rooma space to provide comprehensive care to those patients affected by moderate or severe manifestations in the respiratory tract, such as asthma severe, pulmonary fibrosis and interstitial neuropathy.
This room, where patients will receive medical care and treatment, including biological therapies, will also have a High Cost Pharmacy.
According to the pulmonologist Mariluz Rodriguezis a space that he began to idealize in 2003, when visiting the Hospital of Las Princesas in Spain, saw the operation and was finally materialized by doctor Amaury Rancierhead of the pulmonology service of the Gautier.
Ruiz specified that he is open to receiving people who arrive from the interior of the country and here, “the patient will no longer be swarming around when a medication is to be administered.”
The doctor explained that, previously, the hospital center did not have the high-cost drug supply service, especially those that merit maintaining a Cold chain.
For his part, the Pulmonologist Ignacio Belén Clarified that “We only and exclusively lack the logistics of stocking the pharmacy, equipping it with the necessary medications and obviously, the staff that will administer it”.
He stressed that the appointment of personnel is very important, since, being such expensive products, they require a good quality control, of the cold chain and of the administrative part.
With the entry into operation of this room will also be collecting Scientific information that allows generating real-life evidence to keep updated the care guidelines for patients with a diagnosis of asthma.
“We know that a significant number of asthmatics could present a avoidable bronchospasmwho have asthma serious or severe require a comprehensive evaluation that allows them to have an adequate management of their disease, that is why we work in the search for alternatives and solutions that allow us to offer this group of the population the best quality medical care, since poor control of his condition could represent the appearance of more frequent crises, complications and in extreme cases, death “explained the director of the hospital, Michael Geraldino.
The Respiratory Care Room and the High Cost Pharmacy They seek to close gaps and avoid complications associated with a poorly controlled disease and the negative impact it could have on your general health.
The hospital Gautier receives around 16,200 asthmatic patients each year.
This initiative adds to the effort made by the country with the creation of the National Severe Asthma Unita project approved by the Ministry of Public Health to work collaboratively with the High Cost program with the aim of identifying the mechanisms to offer the best available therapies for patients with asthma so that they can improve their quality of life, reduce symptoms and the frequency of exacerbations associated with the disease, while reducing complications that could put their lives at risk.
