Pharmaceutical Care Approach to Hearing Loss

The ear is a very important sense organ whose main functions are hearing and balancing. It is very sensitive and plays a role in the detection, and transmission of sounds. Hepler and Strand (1) defined pharmaceutical care as: “a patient-centered, outcomes oriented pharmacy practice that requires the pharmacist to work in concert with the patient and the patient’s other healthcare providers to promote health, to prevent disease, and to assess, monitor, initiate, and modify medication use to assure that drug therapy regimens are safe and effective”. The goal of Pharmaceutical Care is to improve the quality of life of the patient, optimize medicines use, achieve definite outcome (1). It is imperative that we understand the role of pharmacists in the management and reduction of hearing loss through education/counselling and monitoring (2, 3).