Imperative Instruction for Pressurized Metered-Dose Inhalers: Provider Perspectives
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Optimizing aerosol delivery by pressurized metered-dose inhalers.
The modern era of aerosol therapy began with the introduction of the Medihaler Epi in 1956, after a 13-year-old asthmatic told her father, an officer in the Riker company, that asthma medications should be as convenient to use as hair spray and she complained that the bulb atomizer leaked in her school bag. Since then, advances in technology have made aerosol delivery much more efficient, so th...
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BACKGROUND Corret inhaler technique is recommended by guidelines for optimum asthma care. The objective of the study is to determine real life predictors of correct pressurized metered dose inhaler (pMDI) technique in Asthma and COPD patients. METHODS Two hundred eight adult patients aged 18+ from respiratory outpatients (69.2%) and the community on regular pMDI for a diagnosis of Asthma (...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Care
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0020-1324,1943-3654
DOI: 10.4187/respcare.06302