Funhaler spacer: improving adherence without compromising delivery

Funhaler spacer: improving adherence without compromising delivery.

A novel asthma spacer device, the "Funhaler", incorporates incentive toys which are isolated from the main inspiratory circuit by a valve. Here we show that its use does not compromise drug delivery. Improved adherence combined with satisfactory delivery characteristics suggest that the Funhaler may be useful for management of young asthmatics.

Efficient Logging without Compromising Testability

A new asthma spacer device to improve compliance in children: a pilot study.

OBJECTIVE This pilot study was designed to compare the acceptance, ease of use, and effects on compliance between currently used spacer devices and the Funhaler--a new small volume spacer device designed to improve adherence to asthma medication in children. METHODOLOGY A matched questionnaire-based survey was conducted by two interviews of each caregiver by the same person. A total of 32 chi...

Concurrent Warehouse Maintenance Without Compromising Session Consistency

To achieve acceptable query response times in data warehouse environments, the data have to be pre-aggregated according to the need of the applications and stored redundantly. These materialized views must be kept up to date, to assure their usability. In this paper we present an algorithm which improves the maintenance of materialized views in two ways. In the first place, the maintenance proc...

Identifying genetic relatives without compromising privacy.

The development of high-throughput genomic technologies has impacted many areas of genetic research. While many applications of these technologies focus on the discovery of genes involved in disease from population samples, applications of genomic technologies to an individual's genome or personal genomics have recently gained much interest. One such application is the identification of relativ...