Protecting veterinarians’ access to compounded veterinary medicines for emergency use

Why do we have to even sign a petition? it's no brainer that these medications are essential for daily vet care.

Vets need to be able to provide emergency compounded medication to care for our patients

I would like improved access to compounded medicines for vets, so eg: we don't need to script off label human drugs with inappropriate sizes for pets - and have these on hand for emergency use - eg: Mirtazipine 2mg for inappetance in cats

Veterinarians do require compounded drugs for Emergency use in some circumstances. If not available this may result in unnecessary loss of animal life.

Compounded medications are a practical and vital part of any practice.

Compounded medications are essential for adequate and affordable pet care

We need access to this!

Is this change also being applied to ALL human medical facilities? If not then why are you preventing veterinarians from offering similar level of services for our patients

It is important to have access to an emergency supply of a small number of compounded medications to provide gold standard veterinary care.

Compounding is vital to the ongoing welfare of the animals we treat.

Its time that the people up in the Offices listened to the Vets working on the front-line in the trenches. They have no idea of the 'real' world patient related life-death issues we face regularly in clinic.

I'm sick of vet boards hamstringing us, just let us do our jobs!

Access to compounded medications is essential

It is vital to instigate treatment immediately for certain cases and that is what having specific compounded medications on the shelf allows veterinarians to do. This is especially relevant for rural / remote clinics where access and delivery times are typically delayed.

Used of emergency medications such as trazodone for anxious pets is essential for animal welfare and veterinary health care professionals safety. Having to write a script for every anxious pet for a few tablets is expensive, time consuming and impractical. It will result in poor animal welfare and personnel safety risks.

BOVA Compounding is essential to the service and care of our patients.

Having access to compounded drugs is no different to having access to registered drugs. Often the compounded drug is not available any other way, but can be required urgently for example Trazadone for sedation of a dangerous dog prior to examination, or a horse with a fungal infection of the eye, for which there is no commercially available effective product and which requires immediate treatment to avoid loss of the eye. Without access to these drugs in a timely manner there are therefore serious concerns with patient care, staff safety, and delay in patient care which is potentially severely detrimental for all concerned.

The proposed changes will only help large drug manufacturers, pushing up medication prices and limiting access to patients needing specific medications or low-numbers of tablets.

It is essential for good and timely veterinary care to have access to emergency compounded medicines.

The ability to access compounded medications is crucial to providing quality and necessary care to our patients.