Lab-Animal Maintenance
"Adequate veterinary care includes responsibility for the promotion and monitoring of an animal's well-being before, during and after experimentation or testing. Animal well-being includes both physical and psychological aspects of an animal's condition evaluated in terms of environmental comfort, freedom from pain and distress and appropriate social interactions, both with conspecifics and with man." From the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine statement on of adequate veterinary care of laboratory animals."
Compounding Pharmacy Services for Laboratory Animal Medicine
We care the way you care about happy, healthy laboratory animals. It's the right thing to do.
For the specialized veterinarians who care for populations of animals used in research, we are your partner in promoting animal well-being. We custom-compound medications used by laboratory-animal managers. We prepare routine laboratory-animal maintenance compounds for disease detection and surveillance, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and resolution, including:
- Preventive medicine;
- Management of protocol-associated disease, disability, or other sequelae;
- Anesthesia and analgesia;
- Surgery and postsurgical care; and
- Assessment of animal well-being.
We work with:
- Research institutes conducting clinical trials and investigational research;
- Universities;
- Hospitals; and
- Veterinary schools.
From creating a topical spray used to treat mites on hundreds of lab mice at a prestigious biomedical institute, to delivering a banana-flavored chloramphenicol palmitate for the primates at a major pharmaceutical company, you can count on us to deliver on your unique requirements. As one of the nation's largest compounding pharmacies, we are perfectly suited to support the unique needs of laboratory-animal managers and the researchers who depend on them to maintain healthy, happy animal populations.
We help to reduce the stress: on you and the animals in your care.
Medicating animals can be stressful on them and you. Animals aren't all that different from people when it comes to medication compliance. Who wouldn't prefer a tasty liquid over gavage or a tasty treat instead of an injection? To take the stress out of medicating laboratory animals, we offer more than 6,000 compounded preparations in a wide variety of strengths, more than a dozen dosage-forms and more than 30 flavors. With so many choices, dosing can be stress-free for you and the animals in your care.
Your emergency is our priority.
In an outbreak occurs within a research-animal population, you can't wait to start treatment. Our entire organization, from our customer care specialists, through our team of compounding pharmacists and technicians, to our sophisticated dispensing process is organized around the fact that compounded medications are rarely not needed immediately. When you have an urgent need for a compounded preparation, we can have your order ready to ship in less than 24 hours. In fact, nearly all of the custom-compounded prescriptions we receive are dispensed and shipped on the same day they are received.
We're here when do-it-yourself won't do.
When you need just a few doses of a custom-compounded medication, you may have a skilled technician on your own staff prepare what's needed. But for those times when you must medicate an entire population of laboratory animals, we have the facilities, equipment and expertise to prepare quantities of compounded medications that would burden a single technician or small staff. Instead of devoting precious resources to preparing medications, your staff can focus on the animals in your care.
We have common maintenance medications on-hand.
Here are some of the commonly prescribed compounded preparations that are always readily available when you need them:
Why Wedgewood Pharmacy?
By investing tens of millions of dollars in facilities, equipment and expertise since 1981 and through our own pioneering dosage-form developments, we are unmatched in the nation as a full-fledged partner in providing custom compounded medications. Your unique requirements are perfectly matched by our facilities, equipment, capabilities, experience and expertise. Our pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are devoted exclusively to compounding. They are supported by a team of customer care specialists, all certified through a state-approved examination. We employ state-of-the-art technology in every aspect of our operations in our 40,000 square-foot facility.
Turn to Wedgewood Pharmacy to help maintain the health of your animals.
If you do not find the specific compounded medication, dosage form and/or flavor that meets your needs, please call us at 856.832.1351.
Please accept our invitation.
We invite you to take a tour of our exceptional facilities and laboratories and to meet with our Clinical Trial and Investigational Research Support Team to discuss — and plan to provide for — your unique needs. Please call us at 856.832.1351 to arrange your visit.
Diplomates of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine are certified specialists in the field of laboratory animal medicine, a recognized specialty within the veterinary medical profession. They provide medical care and management to a wide variety of animal species used in medical, veterinary medical, and biological research and testing. They have unique qualifications which enable them to serve as valuable members of the research team. The American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) is recognized officially by the American Veterinary Medical Association as the certifying organization for laboratory animal medicine. Currently, ACLAM has certified more than 525 veterinarians as active specialists in the field of laboratory animal medicine.