| What Is Compounding? |
| Compounding is a working partnership between the physician, pharmacist and patient to solve a patient’s unique medical problem. This partnership is call the compounding triad. Patients can watch the preparation of compounded medications on 50 inch TV in our waiting are. Watching the technicians in bunny suits, masked, gloved and booties disinfecting the walls, ceiling and floor on TV is an impressive sight. It show visually the care that goes into each medication. Physician Pharmaceutical compounding can enhance any physician’s practice. The physician can improve upon patient compliance and outcomes by taking the time to understand your patient’s needs, and combining your skills with those of our compounding pharmacist to develop products for the specific needs of your patients. Each patient is an individual, so why should one drug fit all? Each individual’s reaction to a particular medicinal substance is different difficult-to-predict factors include fast-versus-slow metabolism, bio-availability, side effects. This biochemical individuality can pose difficult barriers to appropriate prescribing. Compounding allows the physician to tailor the medication to each person’s uniqueness in an individualized way. No longer are physicians limited to “cookie cutter” medicine. Their choices now include new routes of administration, dosage strengths, pharmaceutical combinations and the ability to develop new, potentially helpful compounds. Medicine can be as large as the physician's knowledge and imagination will allow. Compounded Dosage Forms Prepared by Partners In Care Capsules Creams Dye Free Formulations Gels Inhalations Injectables Lip Balms Lactose Free Formulations Medicated Lollipops, Lozenges, Popsicles Nasal Sprays & Solutions Ophthalmics Oral Suspensions Otic Insufflations Otic Solutions & Suspensions Preservative-Free Formulations Rapid Dissolve Tablets Rectal Enemas Rectal Suppositories Solutions Sterile Injections Sterile Eye Drops Sublingual Tablets Suspensions Sugar Free Formulations Throat Sprays Topical Powders Transdermal Gels Troches Vaginal Creams Vaginal Suppositories Veterinary Preparation Patient “Caring for you like family” is our goal. Our pharmacist has the training in bio-identical hormone replacement, men’s health, pain management, wound care and endocrinology to answers patient’s questions, make physician referrals, and work with the physician to create a unique formulation to solve the patient’s problem. One drug will not meet every patient’s need. Patients’ are allergic to dyes, have lactose intolerance, and are allergic to preservatives, adhesives in patches, to certain ingredients in vaginal creams. These are just a few of the problems that can be solved by a compounding pharmacist. We care enough to listen and solve your problem. Pharmacist Pharmaceutical compounding requires a higher level of expertise and dedication to pharmacy than just the act of mixing. Partners In Care has a reference library on drugs, their actions, their routes of administration, their compatibilities and incompatibilities. Chuck Fulmer, RPh, FIACP has the compounding experience to discuss a potential formula with you immediately. However, sometimes it is necessary to review the specific medication, dosage forms applicable to a certain condition. The ability to create an effective new formula is truly the art of compounding. High tech compounding equipment, proper maintenance, written protocols and a written log of each compounded preparation assures that only products meeting the highest standards are prepared and dispensed at Partners In Care. |