A importância do farmacêutico na pandemia de COVID-19

Abstract

The city of Wuhan, China, made headlines and world news in December 2019 due to an outbreak of people showing signs and symptoms of pneumonia. The causative agent identified as a virus was defined as SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee for Virus Taxonomy. The disease caused by this new coronavirus has been called COVID-19 and its Virulence Factor is related to the composition of its structure. Thus, the objective of this work was to conduct a literature review to evaluate the role of the pharmacist in the COVID-19 pandemic and to investigate the exercise of the pharmacist in the practice of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Care in pharmacies and drugstores, in the hospital environment and in clinical analyses. Highlighting the assistance provided by this professional in the pandemic. For this, a search was carried out between the months of September and November 2021 for articles that were related to the theme in order to contribute to the literature review. The inclusion criteria were: articles and publications from 2019 to 2021 in Portuguese, which addressed topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care. Thus, it is noted that the pharmaceutical professional proved to be fundamental during the pandemic, since he ensured the excellence of the provision of his services guiding both the population and his fellow health professionals, creating protocols, performing diagnostic tests, and thus contributing to the reduction of contagion by the new coronavirus.