O papel do farmacêutico no processo saúde-doença na pandemia da covid-19: uma revisão.

Abstract

COVID-19 is a severe acute respiratory syndrome disease caused by the new coronavirus, which has quick spread and high mortality levels. Due to it, the WHO declared a public health emergency and then assigned to COVID-19 the pandemic status. The initial clinic status of the disease is characterized as a flu-like syndrome, that can get worse and lead to evolve into pneumonia and multiple organs failure, causing the patient to die. That being said, the role of the pharmacist at public health emergency rooms have a big importance, once that seeks for patients protection, promotion and also avoid diseases. The main goal of this paper was to identify the relationship between COVID-19 pandemic and the pharmaceutical professional role when fighting the virus. The chosen methodology to write this paper was an integrated revision, by searching for papers at electronic databases: Periódicos CAPES, Eletronic Libary Online (SciElo), Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, Science Direct, PubMed e Medline. The bibliographic data was picked up in three languages: Portuguese, English and/or Spanish, between the time period of 2019 to 2021, when the firsts cases of COVID-19 were identified. Throughout this revision, was looked for the better comprehension about the new coronavirus and the world impact that was caused by the pandemic still in on going, putting some light in pharmaceutical contributions while fighting the COVID-19. This way, it was evident that the pharmacist is a fundamental piece in the current situation, due to be present among different sectors, from community drugstores to more complexes health services, even for being, above all, the professional who is the most close to the population, since drugstores becomes the patient first contacts with the health system, even looking only for some information or orientation about the disease or to buy some medicines to prevent or symptom relief of COVID-19.