LUCENA, O. L. S.; LUCENA, Othon Luís Souza de.
Résumé:
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.