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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Broto-Sumalla, Antoni
• Rabanal-Tornero, Manel
• García-Peláez, Milagros
• Aguilar-Salmerón, Raquel
• Fernández de Gamarra-Martínez, Edurne
• Martínez-Sánchez, Lídia
• Gaspar-Caro, María-José
• Nogué-Xarau, Santiago

Titel

Availability of antidotes in 70 hospitals in Catalonia, Spain

Ist Teil von

• Medicina clinica, 2018-01, Vol.150 (1), p.16

Ort / Verlag

Spain

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Antidotes may have a relevant role in acute intoxication management and the time until its administration can influence patient survival. 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. 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. The availability of antidotes in Catalonia hospitals is generally low and shows differences across health regions and depending on level of complexity.