The purpose of this review is to discuss the roles of cascade impactor (CI) data in inhaler
assessment and to examine the relationship between aerodynamic particle size distribution …

Currently almost all antibiotics are administered by the intravenous route. Since several
systems and situations require more efficient methods of administration, investigation and …

This thoroughly revised and expanded reference provides authoritative discussions on the
physiologic, pharmacologic, metabolic, molecular, cellular and physicochemical factors …

Background Medication nebulizers are commonly used to delivery aerosolized medications
to patients with respiratory disease. We evaluated output and respirable aerosol available to …

Bronchodilator responses to both nebulized albuterol (salbutamol) and ipratropium bromide
and aerosol delivery to the tracheobronchial tree have been assessed in eight patients with …

Aim of nebuliser therapy when determining the fill volume required to deliver a drug to a
patient. 9 The aim of nebuliser therapy is to deliver a therapeutic dose of the desired drug in …

The bronchodilatation achieved by the beta 2 agonist terbutaline sulphate given as
nebulised aerosol from different devices has been measured in seven patients with mild …

The study objective was to compare the effect of budesonide administered as a nebulized
suspension as compared to a spray with a spacer in adult asthmatics. In a double-blind …

A radioaerosol technique has been used to investigate whether the size distribution of
aerosols released from a jet nebuliser affects the amount of aerosol delivered to the lungs …

This article attempts to summarize the factors that influence drug deposition, retention and
absorption within the lung, concentrating particularly on therapeutic aerosols rather than …