Background: Inhaled medications are the cornerstone of asthma therapy. Metered dose inhaler technique is a widely used technique to administer medications like corticosteroids. Meanwhile, the health professionals and patients knowledge and practice towards this metered dose inhaler is quite deficient but arguably understood by policy makers or education expertise. Objective: This study tried to...

The Respimat(®) Soft Mist™ Inhaler (SMI) (Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim, Germany) was developed in response to the need for a pocket-sized device that can generate a single-breath, inhalable aerosol from a drug solution using a patient-independent, reproducible, and environmentally friendly energy supply. This paper describes the design and evolution of this innovative devi...

Maintenance therapies for asthma are vulnerable to low adherence. Clinicians would benefit from having a validated questionnaire to assess adherence to metered-dose inhaler use in children with asthma. The objective of this study was to design and validate a questionnaire assessing adherence to metered-dose inhaler use, to be filled out by the parents and/or caregivers of children with asthma. ...

A radioaerosol technique has been developed in order to assess deposition patterns from a new metered dose powder inhaler (Turbuhaler, Astra Pharmaceuticals). The radionuclide Tc99m dissolved in chloroform was added to a spheronised formulation of micronised terbutaline sulphate and the chloroform was allowed to evaporate. Turbuhaler subsequently delivered 0.5 mg of treated drug per metered dos...

The inhalation route has many advantages in the treatment of diseases of the respiratory tract. Medication may be delivered directly to its site of action, giving a faster onset and allowing smaller doses of drug to be administered. Systemic absorption of the drug is diminished, reducing systemic side eVects. The drug treatment regimen for the vast majority of patients with asthma is straightfo...

The inhalation route has many advantages in the treatment of diseases of the respiratory tract. Medication may be delivered directly to its site of action, giving a faster onset and allowing smaller doses of drug to be administered. Systemic absorption of the drug is diminished, reducing systemic side eVects. The drug treatment regimen for the vast majority of patients with asthma is straightfo...

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The inhalation route has many advantages in the treatment of diseases of the respiratory tract. Medication may be delivered directly to its site of action, giving a faster onset and allowing smaller doses of drug to be administered. Systemic absorption of the drug is diminished, reducing systemic side eVects. The drug treatment regimen for the vast majority of patients with asthma is straightfo...

The inhalation route has many advantages in the treatment of diseases of the respiratory tract. Medication may be delivered directly to its site of action, giving a faster onset and allowing smaller doses of drug to be administered. Systemic absorption of the drug is diminished, reducing systemic side eVects. The drug treatment regimen for the vast majority of patients with asthma is straightfo...