… Home nebulisers: can optimal therapy be … Reversibility tests in chronic obstructive airways
disease their predictive value with reference to benefit from domiciliary nebulizer therapy. …

… reversibility testing classifies the airway obstruction as reversible or irreversible and thereby
guides therapeutic … responded to the bronchodilator reversibility test in our sample and the …

… at test comparing FEV 1 between the randomised groups at 90 min. Secondary analyses
were t tests to … Reversibility (based on absolute change in FEV 1 of at least 200 ml and >12% …

… and Wales is the Hodgkinson’s mini mental test,5 was the … For patients who are cognitively
impaired a nebulised … carer might be able to administer Nebulisers in the elderly are largely …

… or occupational challenge in asthma, reversibility testing in COPD, hypertonic saline for …
might benefit from home nebulizer therapy; loan or hire of nebulizer equipment; advice for …

… ml reversibility to inhaled ipratropium bromide. Eligible subjects participated in six treatment
… At all tested doses there was rapid onset of response (at 5 min, the first assessment) in FEV …

… The following tests were carried out: baseline lung function, reversibility, provocative dose
of methacholine causing a 20% fall in forced expiratory volume in 1 second, a COPD symptom …

… home nebulizer therapy are variable. These have included tests of short term reversibility to
… home nebulizer therapy, but rather as a guide to severity of airflow obstruction. Additionally, …

… tests (group 2), and a group with negative skin prick tests and neither blood nor sputum
eosinophilia (group 3). All had reversible … solution via a Wright’s nebulizer (53 patients) or 200 ¡…

… by an appropriate reversibility study before its inclusion in their bronchodilator treatment. …
All test solutions were administered via an Inspiron nebuliser with a gas flow of 6 litres per …