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 …

GK Crompton* ll is now accepted that inhaled bronchodilator therapy is, whenever possible,
to be preferred to oral treatment in the routine management of reversible airflow obstruction …

Metered dose inhalers (MDIs) which have a valve holding chamber plus a mouthpiece or
mask have, in recent years, markedly improved the ease, speed and reliability of aerosol …

The most common way of treating exacerbations of asthma and chronic airflow limitation
(CAL) in hospital emergency rooms and on the wards is by means of bronchodilator …

Clinicians treating chronic airway obstruction can now choose from so varied a menu of
therapies that the choice often becomes bewilderingly difficult. Some connoisseurs are …

Metered-dose inhalers are the preferred method of aerosol delivery under normal
circumstances because of their convenient size, ease of use and better patient compliance …

Inhalation of medication is the preferred method for treating reversible airway obstruction;
however, difficulties in the use of pressurized canisters frequently lead to suboptimal results …

• Thirty-six acutely ill, hospitalized patients with acute exacerbations of obstructive airway
disease and a greater than 10% increase in forced expiratory volume in 1 s after …

Most patients with reversible airway obstruction use pressurized metered-dose
bronchodilator aerosols to control their symptoms, although these devices are very …

The effects of atropine methonitrate and salbutamol delivered by wet nebulisa-tion,
separately and in combination, were studied in 22 patients with chronic airways obstruction …