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Volume 2 Issue 7
 

News and Notes:
Curious?  Survey results are in.

Profit:
Three Resources to Sharpen Your Practice

Compliance Tip:
Treat 'em like a baby.

Upcoming Events:
Lessons Learned from the Barbaro Experience, by Dr. Dean Richardson

>From the Capitols:
Compounders on Capitol Hill: Good Regulation is Good

August's Featured Special:
Cisapride in the Gourmeds dosage form

August's Featured Monograph:
Cisapride


What's Your Story?
Tell us your story and we'll give $100 to your favorite animal charity.

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News and Notes:
Curious?  Survey Results.
My Wedgewood Pharmacy

Over the last serveral months, we have surveyed nearly 300 veterinary practices to gauge their satisfaction of our services and identify topics that are important to you, our valued customers. The results are in!

A few highlights:
 
77% say that containing costs is a “very important” challenge to their practices; 61% cite escalating pharmaceutical costs, 58% cite clients who don’t pay their bills, 58% cite managing growth and 49% say that having enough clients are “very important” challenges facing them.

Having access to compounded medications is “extremely important” to 80% of those surveyed; the rest said it’s “important.”

• 40% prescribe compounded medications every week; 31% do so every day.

Based on the insight into the kinds of information you've requested, this newsletter reflects several changes in content and you'll see more in the future. 

Margaret (Peggy) J. Rucker, DVM, Southwest Virginia Veterinary Services in Lebanon VA, won the related drawing for a $500 VISA
® Gift Card.  Survey Details >>

Profit:
Three Resources to Sharpen Your Practice
Leading the Way to Your Dream Practice
(AAHA)
10 Tips To Boost Profitability
(Veterinary Economics)
How the Smallest Remedies Reap the Biggest Rewards

Compliance Tip:
Treat 'em like a baby.

This tip comes from two of our customer service reps who also are veterinary technicians: For cats or dogs that refuse to take everything orally, including medication hidden in food, offering the medication mixed in a small amount of chicken baby food often does the trick. They've seen cats that refused everything, including tuna, go for  the stuff.  Wedgewood, of course, can compound chicken-flavored oral liquids or pastes and poultry-flavored Gourmeds™ to further help disguise the medication.


From the Capitol:
Compounders on Capitol Hill: July 7

Scores of compounding advocates went to Capitol Hill as part of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists' annual Compounders on Capitol Hill event.  Their message: We support strong regulation of compound- ing pharmacies.  The right ways protect & educate patients, improve quality and preserve access to custom-made medica- tions.  The wrong way restricts everyone's choices.  Details >>

Upcoming Events:
Lessons Learned from the Barbaro Experience, by Dr. Dean Richardson, head of the medical team that treated Barbaro.  Friday, August 3, 4:00 p.m. at the Hambletonian Education Seminar for Equine Veterinarians, Meadowlands (NJ) Racetrack.  Sponsored by Wedgewood Pharmacy. Reservations/information >>
 
Photo: Kathy Freeborn, University of Pennsylvania

Featured Special:
Cisapride
5mg and 10mg 100 count, natural chicken and fish flavors
 

 


Featured Monograph:
Cisapride is a third- generation benzamide that is used in human and veterinary medicine as a motility enhancement drug. Motility disorders of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are a common clinical problem in companion animals. Post-operative ileus is a common and particularly difficult complication seen after abdominal surgery in horses. Cisapride was once used as a motility enhancement drug in human medicine but it is no longer manufactured or used for this purpose.
Read the entire monograph >>
 

Cisapride Overview

Therapeutic Class
Gastrointestinal prokinetic
Species
Dogs, Cats, Horses
Indications
Esophageal reflux or megaesophagus, anti-emetic, post-operative ileus, delayed gastric emptying, megacolon.
FDA Status
No veterinary approval

What's Your Story?
Do you have a story about the use of compounded medications in your practice?  If we publish your In The Field story in an upcoming edition, we'll donate $100 in your name to any animal non-profit you designate.  Please call Amy Shane at 1.800.331.8272 extension 1330 or send an
E-mail.

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one of the nation's largest veterinary compounding pharmacies.
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