Control of antimicrobial drugs: analysis from the rdc 44 of October 26, 2010

Abstract

The indiscriminate use of antibiotics has been reported as an agent for predisposing episodes of bacterial resistance, the bacteria along of the time spent to develop various coping mechanisms. ANVISA considering the increase in cases of hospital infections by antibiotic-resistant microorganisms determined the RDC 44, 2010 which regulates the dispensing of medicines made from classified as antimicrobial substances. This work it is a descriptive literature review that evaluated studies related to prescribing, dispensing and use of antibiotics before and after the RDC 44 of 2010. It was observed that the most of used in therapeutic classes of antibiotics before the current legislation are the same as those after the law. About knowledge and acceptance by the population, 87.2% were satisfied and understood the new regulatory measures, who disagreed (2.4%) with such changes, the need for medical consultation to obtain prescription was the point of discontent. There are still some drugstores, where professionals do not require that there be a prescription (25%), analyzing the prescriptions it was noted that 100% contained the prescribing data and 87.7% contained the date of issue. According to the results obtained can be seen that there was rather changes in relation to consumption of antibiotics after the RDC 44, 2010, however, there are still cases where the law is not fully enforced, for this, it is necessary that there is better control by public health managers.

Keywords

• antimicrobials, bacterial resistance, rdc 44/2010, rdc 20/2011