Satellite pharmacy is a hospital pharmacy located inside critical care areas such as Surgical Center and Intensive Care Unit. The main goals of these pharmacies are to store and preserve pharmaceutical products appropriately, which is of great importance for maintenance of drug stability and potency, and also to supply medications quickly and more easily.

Surgical Center Satellite Pharmacy

The satellite pharmacy in the Surgical Center of the Instituto de Neurologia de Curitiba (Neurological Institute of Curitiba), offers 24-hour exclusive service to patients in surgical procedures. It is located in the heart of the Surgical Center, which allows patients to be medicated rapidly, facilitates the supply dispensation besides offering easy access to everything needed to perform the procedure. To ensure patient safety and security, a barcode based tracking system is used, which allows us to track all drugs and materials used during surgery and post-anesthesia recovery.

ICU Satellite Pharmacy

Our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is staffed by highly trained personnel who provide more intensive care to critically ill patients .To meet the needs of these patients our satellite pharmacy operates 24 hours, providing our medical staff and nurses with resources to meet our goals of unsurpassed patient safety, optimal clinical outcomes and high efficiency.

The main functions of a central pharmaceutical supply room (storage for pharmaceuticals products) are: to receive, to store, to control the stock and to distribute medicines and supplies for hospital pharmacies. After receiving, all the pharmaceutical products are identified by barcodes in order to ensure traceability by lot and validity. Internal criteria of storage are followed to preserve the quality of the medicines and acquired materials. 

To be a pharmacist is to be in charge of  the pharmacy, the lab, to be in  education and research,

To be a pharmacist one has to prepare solutions, manipulate formulas, produce tablets, capsules, syrups ...

To be a pharmacist is to guide the clinical staff and patients on dosages, interactions and side effects,

To be a pharmacist, you are part of a team of other health professionals; you must have dedication and wisdom to take care of problems and diseases that appear throughout history,

To be a pharmacist you are an agent of health,

To be a  pharmacist is to mix, compose, prepare ointments,...
His work has no end ...

To be a  pharmacist one has to embrace the causes of concern of humanity and have a deep and abiding desire to be a pharmacist.


 Wise Quote:

"Substances in the hands of pharmacists turn to drugs, healing, health, just as the stone in the hands of the goldsmith is transformed into jewelry, in brightness and light."
 

Our main focus is to offer a medication therapy efficient and safe. For that, we choose our suppliers and pharmaceutical products very carefully. Additionally, we follow rigorous criteria on organization and medication flow. The bar code offers us an additional security to monitor and trace all the medicines that the patient used during his hospital stay.