GPS INGLÉS
Mission
The general purpose of the Medical Device workgroup are as follows:
- Promote rational use of medical devices.
- Encourage participation of hospital pharmacists in the management of medical devices.
- To encourage hospital pharmacists to use medical devices in the patients’ benefit.
- Prepare documents and standardized work procedures for the assessment, selection and use of medical devices in hospitals.
- Encourage hospital pharmacists to perform clinical, educational and research activities in the realm of medical devices.
The specific goals of the workgroup are as follows:
- Being together all hospital pharmacists with a special interest in and special dedication to medical devices.
- Facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experiences between professionals.
- Encourage pharmacists’ participation in the selection of medical devices for their hospital’s formulary.
- Prepare consensus-based documents and procedures for assessing, selecting and using medical devices in hospitals.
- Make available useful information on medical devices to hospital pharmacists.
- Promote the organization of training courses and debates on medical devices and other matters of professional interest, geared particularly towards pharmacy residents.
- Perform and promote multi-center research.
- Collaborate with other health professionals and other scientific societies.
- Actively participate in the application of medical devices in pharmaceutical care.
Members
COORDINATOR
MARISA GASPAR CARRENO
Pharmacy Department, Intermutual Occupational Health Hospital, Valencia
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SECRETARY
SEIRA CLIMENT BALLESTER
Pharmacy Department, Dr. Balmis University General Hospital, Alicante
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STEERING COMMITTEE
JUAN FRANCISCO MARQUEZ PEIRO
Pharmacovigilance Department. AEMPS, Madrid
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SERGIO GARCIA CASES
La Florida Elderly Care Center, Alicante
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JUAN SELVA OTAOLARRUCHI
Pharmacy Department, Dr. Balmis University General Hospital, Alicante
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ARANTXA AGUINAGALDE TOYA
Pharmacy Department, Beata Maria Ana Hospital, Madrid
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PIEDAD LOPEZ SANCHEZ
Pharmacy Department, Tomelloso General Hospital, Ciudad Real
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ISABEL ROMERO CRESPO
Central Services. NISA Hospital, Valencia VITHAS Group
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MARIA CRISTINA MUNOZ CONTRERAS
Pharmacy Department, La Vega Hospital, Murcia
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MIRIAM TOCA MUNOZ
Pharmacovigilance Department. AEMPS, Madrid
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SEFH BOARD MEMBER
MAR GALINDO RUEDA
Pharmacy Department. Virgen de la Arrixaca Clinical University Hospital
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ADVISORY COMMITTEE
MARIA QUERALT GORGAS TORNER
Pharmacy Department. Parc Tauli Hospital, Sabadell, Barcelona
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ORDINARY MEMBERS
LEIRE LEACHE ALEGRIA
Navarra Health Service
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TERESA GARCIA HERNANDEZ
Pharmacovigilance Unit. Regional Health Ministry, Valencia.
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NOEMI GOMEZ GARCIA
Pharmacy Department, HM University Hospital, Madrid.
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MARIA JOSE TORNER GINER
Pharmacovigilance Unit. Regional Health Ministry, Valencia.
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SILVIA VALERO GARCIA
Pharmacy Department, La Fe Polytechnic University Hospital, Valencia.
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ALICIA MARTIN VILA
Meixoeiro Hospital, Vigo, Pontevedra.
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COMMUNITY MANAGER INTERN
IVAN BELTRA PICO
Pharmacy Service General University Hospital Dr. Balmis, Alicante.
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Although at the present time the management of medical devices (MDs) is not within the remit of all hospital pharmacy departments in Spain, it is also true that there are many pharmacies, in both public and private hospitals which, for various reasons, including a desire to take on greater responsibilities or to optimize their resources, or the conviction that it could bring them significant added value, undertake the management of medical devices or actively encourage their rational use in their hospitals.
Medical device stewardship being a multidisciplinary responsibility, an in-depth technical understanding of medical devices and their potential risks, as well as of their potential influence on the results of drug therapy and their interpretation, is becoming a vital prerequisite for any professional dedicated to patient care.
It is therefore indispensable to motivate hospital pharmacists to become involved in the management of medical devices as useful and necessary components of patients’ diagnosis and treatment processes, as well as to develop specific training programs that enable them to work collaboratively with other professionals and make well-grounded proposals related to the technical and safety and impact-related aspects of drug therapy.
Every hospital should build its own system for managing medical devices based on the existing legislation, and hospital pharmacists should play an active part in this process. Although pharmacists need not participate in every single step of the management process, they should however be involved in the management of MDs related to the drug administration given the repercussion of such processes for the efficacy and safety of the medicines administered.
There is widespread awareness of the legal responsibility assigned to pharmacists by Law 41/2006 (29/2006) on the warranties and rational use of medicines and medical devices, which mentions our specific clinical and research-related responsibilities as regards medical devices. Laws have also been enacted by the different autonomous regions to this effect. Aspects such as pharmacists’ active role in reporting incidents with medical devices or our participation in the medical device alert network are currently a reality across all Spanish hospital pharmacies, irrespectively of whether they may be more or less involved with managing medical devices.
