Alterações em resultados de exames laboratoriais causadas por medicamentos

Abstract

Currently, there is great availability to medicines, thereby increasing the likelihood of their irrational use as well, because people self-medicating with great frequency when some kind of laboratory examination is submitted, there may be changes in it. Laboratory tests are an important auxiliary tool in the diagnosis, monitoring and often in preventing disease, but may be affected by different factors: analytical technique used, obtaining procedure and the time it was collected the sample, the patient's diet, interaction with medicine. In laboratories are followed recommendations and standards for the exams, and one of the common rules are the use of drugs before performing certain type of blood test, always asking the patient so you can avoid and reduce errors, to prevent any changes in test results. Even using this procedure, many patients, because they are already there, just saying they did not use drugs before the exam, that is, in the last 24 hours. Faced with this fact, there will be significant changes in the results of the tests. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate the changes in laboratory test results caused by drugs. Thus, the main drugs that cause this change will be described. The methodology used for this study was through literature searches.