Acta Biomedica Scientia

ASSESSMENT OF PRESCRIPTION TRENDS IN ORTHOPEDICS DEPARTMEN

Srinivas M , Hari Prasad K, SDS Prudhvi K, Saiprem S

jhankarini@gmail.com

orthopedics, muscle relaxants, fracture, hospital formulary

Introduction: In orthopedics department of any health care hospital use of multiple drugs is necessary due to clinical conditions like fracture, spondylosis, and other conditions associated with severe pain. Use of different categories of medicines include, analgesic for relieving pain, antipyretics for elevated body temperature, antimicrobials for preventing infection, muscle relaxants, immunosuppresents, vitamin supplements etc. Materials and Methods: The study is designed to be a retrospective study which does not involve a direct interaction with the patients. The patient’s clinical data of the complete hospital stay were collected from the Medical Records Department of the hospital after getting approval for the study by the hospital’s Institutional Ethics Committee. Results and Discussion: The study was carried out in about 300 patient’s clinical data, the frequency of admissions with respect of clinical conditions which included fracture, lumbar spondylosis, osteoarthritis, cervical spondylosis, bursitis, synovitis, joint dislocation were noted. Various trends of drugs like NSAIDS, anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants, and antimicrobials are noted done. All the data collected and analysed are reported in TABLE 1 and TABLE 2.About 153 patients were admitted with fracture, lumbar spondylosis cases were 54, osteoarthritis were of 45, cervical spondylosis were 3, bursitis were 30, synovitis were 6, joint dislocation were of 9 cases. Conclusion: It can be concluded from the study that the flow of patients with fracture as chief complaint were of more in number accounting with 51% of overall study population. NSAIDS were found to be more frequently prescribed with 43% of overall study population. It was also observed that the prescription pattern was in adherence with the hospital formulary to large extent.