Protecting veterinarians’ access to compounded veterinary medicines for emergency use

We need to be able to have access to some medications compounded that we can stock in a timely fashion. They can save lives in acute poisonings, others can reduce anxiety and it may affect our ability to give best practice to our clients.

Anti-anxiety medications have been monumental in making veterinary treatment as fear-free as possible. Having restrictions put in place will be equally as monumental, albeit in a negative and damaging way.

Essential service, don't let Big Pharma destroy a service they cannot compete with

As a mixed animal vet, this would be a significant impact to multi species treatment.

We regularly use medications for emergency use in clinic, especially for fearful patients prior to consultation. Negating this would significantly impact on the ability for us to manage fear aggression, and put us at increased risk of injury.

Veterinary medicine should only be prescribed by veterinarians.

In the interest of humane and timely medical management of our patients we need access to emergency medications

Trazodone is a lifesaving anti anxiety medication that is used frequently in aggressive/ anxious animals in order for us to be able to get near them in urgent care situations. There are several other drugs in frequent use that need to be on the shelf for us to be able to utilise in urgent situations.

It is vital for vets to be able to have emergency stock of medications!

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So important to have this access

It's a vital resource to ensure essential patient medical management.

This compromises patient care significantly. Compounded medication takes time to arrive and in that time, something is needed to bridge the gap. Furthermore this compromises vet staff safety as some animals aren’t able to handled (or even gotten close to) without medications like trazodobe.

This will signficantly impact emergency practice if veterinarians are unable to stock and utilise medications for unexpected purposes.

Will be so, very sensible to allow emergency use of compounded medication

I support this petition in the best interests of providing timely treatment for our patients

SYSTEM WORKS WELL- WHY CHANGE IT ?

As an ophthalmology referral veterinary clinic, we must have compounded eye medication available for urgent use. Not having compounded medication available on our shelves will severely impact the running of our business as well as the welfare of our patients.

Access is important for animal welfare and removal of access will result in a very negative effect on animal welfare.

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