Day 1 :
Keynote Forum
Chinmaya Mahapatra
Pharmacovigilance Associate, Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, India
Keynote: Role of Pharmacovigilance in medication error
Biography:
Abstract:
Abstract
Introduction
Pharmacovigilance plays an important role in protecting patients from serious adverse drug reactions independent of the root cause. The medication error may lead to harm to the patient that could be minor, moderate, or severe.
Objective
The objective of this research work was to find out different strategies to protect the patient from an adverse event that may arise because of medication errors.
Methods
Regulatory guidelines such as ICH E2BR3, EMA/762563/2014, and USFDA guidelines were studied in detail. The strategies provided by different physicians, researchers were reviewed to find out the possible ways to avoid adverse events because of medication error.
Results
The following strategies were found to be effective such as training to the physician, patient, and all health care professionals. The correct diagnosis, correct patient, correct prescription, correct dispensing, correct administration, and correct follow-up are the primary areas that could be considered. The patient should read the prescription and cross-check with the drug product label. The patient should read the patient information sheet, leaflet, or summary of product characteristics before taking the drugs. The information such as contraindication, dose calculation, method of administration, maximum daily dose, warnings, precautions, information on adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, drug-food interactions must be well understood by the patient before using any drug.
Conclusion
The patient could be protected from harm or adverse events if all the corrective measures were taken during the administration of the drugs. Though it cannot be 100 % effective it could minimize the number of adverse events to a great extent
Keynote Forum
James Jorge Bottomley
Keynote: Arthroscopic Meniscectomy and Meniscal Repair: Comparison of Clinical Outcomes
Biography:
James Jorge Bottomley is a final year medical student at Newcastle University who has just completed a master’s degree in medical research (MRes) whilst being supervised by Mr Oday Al-Dadah, focussing on the comparison of clinical outcomes following different surgical procedures for meniscal tears in the knee. His analysis comparing meniscectomy and meniscal repair using multiple validated patient reported outcome measures aims to aid the creation of an improved treatment algorithm for these lesions, improving surgical outcomes. This project is the first comparing surgical treatment in isolated meniscal tears, providing a unique evaluation on this common injury.
Abstract:
Background: Meniscal tears are the most common injury in the knee, affecting 66/100,000 people per year. Surgical treatment includes arthroscopic meniscectomy or meniscal repair. Little is known regarding medium-term outcomes following these procedures in isolated meniscal tears. This study aims to quantitatively evaluate patients with meniscal tears, and those who have undergone meniscectomy and meniscal repair using validated patient reported outcome measures (PROMs), further exploring factors which affect surgical outcomes.