Quality of life measurements and bronchodilator responsiveness in prescribing nebulizer therapy in COPD

C Brophy, JA Kastelik, E Gardiner… - Chronic respiratory …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Nebulized bronchodilators are widely regarded as the optimal treatment for maintenance
therapy in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The aim of …

Bronchodilator therapy: Comparison of acute response to three methods of administration

EH Chester, I Racz, PB Barlow, GL Baum - Chest, 1972 - Elsevier
Nine men with stable COPD were studied to evaluate any difference in the acute response
to aerosol isoproterenol administered by IPPB or by two simpler constant flow nebulizer …

Domiciliary Nebuliser Therapy—A Valuable Option in Chronic Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?

DJ Godden, A Robertson, N Currie… - Scottish medical …, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
Domiciliary nebulisers are in widespread use for patients who have severe chronic airways
disease, both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We report a study …

Bronchodilator delivery in acute airflow obstruction: a meta-analysis

MO Turner, A Patel, S Ginsburg… - Archives of internal …, 1997 - jamanetwork.com
Objective: To compare the effect of bronchodilator delivery by use of a metered-dose inhaler
(MDI) or wet nebulizer on objective measurements of acute airflow obstruction in adult …

Nebulisers for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BR O'Driscoll - Thorax, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Definition of chronic obstructive generally agreed that the bronchodilation ob-pulmonary
disease tained is largely a reflection of the dose of In this paper the term “chronic obstructive …

Aerosol therapy of reversible airflow obstruction: Concepts and clinical applications

MT Newhouse, M Dolovich - Chest, 1987 - journal.chestnet.org
While IPPB aerosol therapy has largely been abandoned, therapeutic aerosols are still
commonly produced by jet and ultrasonic nebulizers in hospital practice, mostly in the …

Assessment of the clinical usefulness of nebulised ipratropium bromide in patients with chronic airflow limitation.

IG Brown, CS Chan, CA Kelly, AG Dent… - Thorax, 1984 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The effect of adding nebulised ipratropium bromide to bronchodilator treatment was studied
in 20 patients with severe chronic airflow limitation. Maintenance theophylline with or without …

Acute response to bronchodilator: an imperfect guide for bronchodilator therapy in chronic airflow limitation

GH Guyatt, M Townsend, S Nogradi… - Archives of Internal …, 1988 - jamanetwork.com
• We conducted a four-period cross-over randomized trial in which we found that patients
with chronic airflow limitation demonstrated symptomatic improvement with both inhaled …

Bronchodilator testing: an endless story

R Pellegrino, A Antonelli… - European Respiratory …, 2010 - Eur Respiratory Soc
The history of the bronchodilator test dates back to the late 1950s when airway diseases
were classified as reversible or irreversible depending on the response to bronchodilators …

High-dose inhaled albuterol in severe chronic airflow limitation “3

AS Vathenen, JR Britton, P Ebden… - The American review …, 1988 - atsjournals.org
HighercIoseeof Inhaled albuterol have been. hown tocau... llghtlymo", bronchodlla-18\lon
than atandard doses from a metered-dose Inhaler In patients with severe chronic airflow …