Off label prescription and medical civil responsibility in pandemic times: a legal-detailed analysis of the disease COVID-19

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Leonardo Aurélio Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Bomfim, Rainer
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Direito da Faculdade Guanambi
• Texto Completo: https://portaldeperiodicos.animaeducacao.com.br/index.php/RDFG/article/view/13963
• topic: Direito Privado. Responsabilidade Civil Médica. Prescrição Off Label. Pandemia Covid-19.; Private Law. Medical Civil Liability. Off Label Prescription. Covid-19 Pandemic.

OBJECTIVE: This article offers a analysis of medical responsability for off label prescriptions in times of pandemic with a focus on the disease COVID-19. METHOD: Under the legal-dogmatic methodological approach, using a bibliographic review for the construction of this work, with the analysis of artiches and national doctrine on the subject, using the hypothetical-inductive method. RELEVANCE/ORIGINALITY: With the emergence of this and the mass use of uses outside the label of medicines, several legal disputes necessary to emerge from the doctor / pactient relationship, so that the presente study seeks to understand how a prescription occurs outside the label in Brazilian territory, analyze the paramertrs for lawful off-label uses in common times and discuss how the off-label prescription should be anlyzed in times of pandemic, identifying the requirements that would authorize such practice. RESULTS: As a consequence, it is understood that the medical professional who observes certain possible for off-label prescription of medications during the COVID-19 pandemic should not suffer the consequneces of civil responsability, however, casustic anlyzes should bem ade for measurement of medical guilt. THEORICAL / METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUITIONS: In common times, the rigor for off label uses must be diferente from that Applied in the times of pandemic.