Enhancing Patient Care with Extemporaneous Compounding
Extemporaneous compounding offers a valuable approach to tailor medications to individual needs.
Designs for Health is proud to introduce the Online Compounding Calculator. This calculator is based on the design principles of pharmacist and naturopath Diana Boot and supports you to create bespoke formulations with accuracy and efficiency.
Using The Extemporaneous Compounding Calculator
Recognising the complexities and potential of extemporaneous compounding, Diana Boot, a respected pharmacist and naturopath with over 30 years of experience, developed the fundamentals of this Online Calculator. This innovative tool is designed to simplify the compounding process, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in creating personalised formulations.
Key Features of the Calculator:
- Precise ingredient calculations
- Dosage recommendations
- Patient Instructions
- Report downloads for Patient and Practitioner
Instructions for Use
- Complete the fields with the formula name and patient name
- Select which ingredients to include in your formula
- Adjust the dose of each ingredient
- Specify consumables and additional charges to calculate the final price for the patient (ex GST)
- Use Export buttons to download a reference PDF for your patient and a record for your files
The Benefits of Extemporaneous Compounding
- Personalised Medicine: Each patient has unique requirements, and their treatment should reflect this. Compounding allows for adjustments in dosage, ingredients, and delivery methods to suit individual needs.
- Addressing Allergies and Sensitivities: For patients with allergies or sensitivities to certain ingredients found in commercial medications, compounding can offer allergen-free alternatives.
- Improved Patient Compliance: By combining multiple medications into a single dosage form or creating more palatable formulations, compounding can help improve patient adherence to treatment regimens.
Embracing Advanced Healthcare Practices
With the shift towards more individualised treatment plans, extemporaneous compounding is essential for modern healthcare practitioners. It helps bridge the gap between standardised medications and patients’ diverse needs, offering a truly personalised level of care.
By incorporating extemporaneous compounding with this calculator, practitioners can enhance their practice and offer patients tailored solutions that address their unique health challenges with improved precision and care.
Online Training Course
Practitioners are invited to review Designs for Health’s 90-minute course, Mastering Extemporaneous Compounding, presented by Diana Boot.
Register with Natural Script for compounded nutritionals as well as bespoke liquid herbs, herbal creams:
Diana Boot
B. Pharmacy, Dip Nut Med
B. HSc (Naturopathy)
Diana is a compounding pharmacist and naturopath passionate about integrative and personalised medicine.
She co-founded Natural Chemist and is the senior partner in two independent community and compounding pharmacies. She has over 30 years of experience as a pharmacist and 12 years as a nutritionist/naturopath.
Natural Chemist provides a dispensary service, Natural Script, which provides the unique capability to formulate bespoke liquid herbs; herbal creams including vaginal applicators; nutritional compounds including powders, suppositories, troches, and capsules; and pharmaceutical compounds (for medical doctors).
Diana’s clinical practice, Med Free Me, is collaborative and focused on safe and supervised deprescribing. She works directly with patients and mentors other practitioners on how to help their clients reduce their reliance on prescription medicines.