A Prospective Observational Study on Drug Utilization Pattern of Antibiotics During Pregnanacy and Delivery in A Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital

摘要

Drugs play a crucial role in promoting well-being of Human Health. Pregnancy is a special Physiological condition where drug treatment presents a special concern. Antibiotics are typically used to treat community borne infections in pregnancy and delivery women. A Prospective Observational study was conducted in Santhiram Medical college and General Hospital, Nandyal from July 2019 to December 2019 to determine the Drug Utilization pattern of Antibiotics During Pregnancy and Delivery. Where clinical data are collected by using case sheets to determine the utilization pattern of Antibiotics in patients who are admitted in inpatient wards and attending every month as outpatient for their regular checkup. A total of 150 patients were evaluated, about their utilization pattern of Antibiotics like Dosage, Safety, Frequency, and category of drugs under FDA classification. Where the utilization was categorized and classified into a rationalized prescription. There are many infections usually occurred during pregnancy and delivery period in that condition these antibiotics play an important role in preventing RTI and UTI and other prophylactic Bacterial infections. This study associates with Drug safety and therapeutic outcome of their age, sex and number of drugs per prescription. To lower the frequency of potential interactions it could be necessary to make a careful selection of therapeutic alternatives and this study is used to assess the reducing the risk of drug resistance, adverse effects and side effects where to improve the Drug safety and therapeutic outcome.