Drug-Drug Interactions Control of Cardiac Patients in Nation Heart Institute-Bach Mai Hospital
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Abstract
Background: The incidence of cardiovascular diseases has increased in recent decades. Our main goal is to study the incident ratio of drug interaction and analyze the relationship between the number of used drugs and incident occurrence.
Subject: 100 in-patients clinical record in the Institute of cardio-vascular diseases, Bach Mai hospital from January 2007 to June 2007.
Methods: Retrospective analysis.
Results and Conclusions: Both the software Drug Interaction Facts 1998 and Mims Interactive 2001 revealed the incident ratio of drug interaction in the records in the Institute of Cardio-vascular diseases were rather high (80-91%).
Conclusions: The incident ratio was higher when the number of used drugs increased. ACE inhibitors with a potassium-sparing diuretic or loop diuretics, furosemide with digoxin, cephalosporin with an N-metylthiotetrazole ring.