I will gladly welcome any feedback or
comments to enhance the teamwork and make our health
care services in our country up to the standards.
Waiting for health provider pioneers kind
feedback.
Asma Ibrahim, Pharmacist
Hamad General Hospital .HGH.
Hamad Medical corporation. HMC
One of the most important roles of the pharmacist is
the role of being an educator and patients counselor
regarding there medications -how and why- they are
taking them.
In this case the pharmacist should make his best
effort to educate the patient about her condition
and explain to her clearly what is asthma and try to
asses her condition through the asthma questionnaire
and through the beak flow meter, then he should give
her a quite good information about therapy choices
including side effects expected with each choice.
also she should leave the pharmacy understanding
that albuterol in neither anti-cough nor
anti-allergic drug.
McLean and colleagues illustrated that the provision
of targeted asthma education by community
pharmacists resulted in a 50% reduction in symptom
scores, an 11% increase in peak flow readings, 0.6
fewer days missed from school/work annually, a 50%
reduction in the use of rescue medications, an
overall 19% improvement in quality of life, and a
75% reduction in both medical and emergency room
visits.
