22/03/2012Posted : March 22, 2012
Injectable NSAID for use in cattle, pigs and horses

A new, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) of the oxicam class for use in cattle, pigs and horses, Emdocam (meloxicam 20mg/ml), is the latest pharmaceutical introduction from Animalcare.

Emdocam disrupts the inflammatory cascade by inhibiting prostaglandin synthesis. It is a potent and preferential inhibitor of COX-2, permitting sufficient COX-1 sparing activity. It has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects. When administered in a single dose to cattle, it has long acting anti-endotoxic, anti-pyretic and anti-inflammatory effects for up to three days.

In cattle, it is indicated for:

• BOVINE RESPIRATORY DISEASE (BRD)
  Early use of meloxicam for BRD reduces pyrexia and pain, especially in young calves and improves feed intake. Meloxicam plus an antibiotic significantly reduced the extent of lung lesions, leading to improved clinical efficacy and daily liveweight gain in comparison with animals treated with antibiotics alone.
• CLINICAL MASTITIS
  Used adjunctively with an antibiotic it helps relieve local and systemic inflammation, returns the udder to a normal condition and reduces the polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) response.
• CALF SCOUR
  Calf scour treated with meloxicam, as a supportive therapy, can improve calf well-being and reduce morbidity.

In horses, administered IV at 3.0ml/100kg bw, Emdocam can be used for musculo-skeletal disorders, as well as colic, resulting in reduced pain and inflammation.

Emdocam is also indicated in pigs for non-infectious locomotive disorders and as an adjunctive therapy with an antibiotic in puerperal septicaemia and toxaemia (mastitis-metritis-agalactia syndrome).

Tony Liepman from Animalcare said: "Emdocam is competitively priced whether used on its own or adjunctively with a long-acting intramuscular (IM) antibiotic, such as Florgane suspension for the treatment of BRD in calves. This, coupled with its long lasting, low volume (2.5ml/100kg bw in cattle), single dose administration, by intravenous (IV) or subcutaneous (SC) injection, makes Emdocam a highly efficacious and practical NSAID."

• Emdocam is a POM-V medicine and available as 50 and 100ml multi-dose vials.