Medication status among hospitalized children with respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia in Shenyang city

Objective To study the status of medication among child patients hospitalized due to respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia in Shenyang city,Liaoning province and to provide evidences for evaluating reasonable clinical drug application.Methods Medical records of 372 children aged 6 years and younger diagnosed with respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia and hospitalized between March 2012 and September 2014 were extracted from 4 tertiary hospitals of grade A in Shenyang city to analyze drug use among the child patients.Results Of the patients,97.33% (362/372)were treated with 32 types of antibiotics and 54.84% (204/372)with 9 types of antiviral drugs.The total number of antimicrobial and antiviral regimens applied to the child patients was 1 254 person times and the regimens involved 7 categories of antibiotics and antiviral drugs,including cephalosporin antibiotics (608 person times,accounting for 48.48% of all the medication regimens),antiviral drugs (258,20.6%),macrolide antibacterial drugs (183,14.6%),penicillin antibiotics drugs (139,11.1%),aminoglycoside antibacterial drugs (35,2.8%),sulfonamides antibacterial drugs (30,2.4%),and quinolone antibacterial drugs (1,0.1%).Conclusion Antibiotics are the most commonly used drugs and antiviral medication is not used enough among hospitalized children with respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia in Shen-yang city.