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How do I schedule multiple horses' medications?

You can schedule multiple horses medications by following the below steps

  • On the home screen of EquiTrace, select ‘Medicate multiple horses’  
  • Once you select this, you can schedule a future medication for multiple horses or record a current or past medication for them.  
  • When you select ‘Schedule Medication’ you will be brought to a screen with a list of all your horses.  
  • Here you may search horses' names or filter by Foals, Yearlings, 2y olds, 3y+, Males, Geldings, Females. You may also sort by: Name, Dam, Year, Barn.
  • Once you’ve selected or filtered your horses you simply select Add all horses below.  
  • A pop up will appear once you select add all horses below for the filter you have chose. It will ask you to confirm if you wish to select the horses you have added. If you wish to add more you may select ‘Add More’. If not you press ‘Next’ 
  • When you select next you will be brought to the screen where you are asked to input the medication you wish to administer to these multiple horses.  
  • You may then scan the drug’s box barcode by selecting ‘Scan Drug’ or you may type in the drugs name in the ‘Enter Drug (s)’ box. 
  • When you have selected your drug you will then see a box with your drug and a quantity of how much to administer. 
  • Adjust medication dosage quantities by selecting the edit button beside the drug you have selected. Here you may adjust the Amount in ml, Route, Frequency and Treatment Times. 
  • Once you have happy with your adjustments, select ‘Add to list’  
  • If you want to add a second medication to the selected list of horses you just added the previous drug to simply repeat the above steps.  
  • Once you have completed, select Done on the bottom right-hand side of the screen.  
  • You will be then brought to ‘Chose Date for Medication’. Select the date you wish to schedule your medication(s) for multiple horses.  
  • If you wish for the medication schedule to repeat you may select either None, Once, Beginning of month or Every.  
  • If you select ‘Once’ you may select when it will repeat again. You may select in days, weeks or years. You will then be asked if you want to be notified when repeat medication is due. You can select yes or no. 
  • If you select ‘Beginning of month’ you may select how many days at the beginning of each month for this drug to be scheduled for. You may also select ‘Until date’ and select a date. You may also choose ‘For Pregnancy’ or ‘Until Stopped’.  
  • If you wish to repeat the medication every X amount of time you may adjust to do this. You may repeat every day, week or year and select a number of days, weeks or years you want your scheduled medication to be repeated. Alternatively you may select a day of the week for the medication to repeat and until a date of your choosing, for the mare's pregnancy or until the medication is stopped.  
  • When you select your preferred schedule, you will then be asked if you want to be notified when repeat medication is due. You can select yes or no. 
  • When you’ve completed the above steps you must then select ‘Next’ at the bottom of the screen.  
  • Next, you will be brought to Drugs Scheduled screen. Here you will review your scheduled medication. You can edit the date you wish to start your medication.  
  • You can see the medication(s) you have scheduled and for what horses. If you are not happy with all the details you may go back and change the medication, the time it has been scheduled for, and the horses it has been scheduled for.  
  • Once you are happy with your scheduled medication and the horses that are on the list you must then press ‘Confirm’ on the bottom right-hand side of the screen.  
  • Once you press confirm your medication(s) for multiple horses will be scheduled.