Many patients, particularly the very young, the elderly and those with co-morbidities affecting
coordination, need to use a facemask rather than a mouthpiece in order to receive inhaled …

The laboratory evaluation of inhalers with facemasks for patient interface is so complex that
testing without a facemask is generally undertaken, a practice that has been advocated in …

The fit of a facemask, when used in conjunction with a VHC for the delivery of medication to
the poorly coordinated patient, has an important influence on the quantity of drug that is …

Facemasks serve as a patient-device interface to facilitate drug delivery from a pressurized
metered dose inhaler (pMDI) with an attached valved holding chamber (VHC), and are …

Many orally inhaled products are supplied with a facemask instead of a mouthpiece,
enabling aerosolized medication to be transferred from the inhaler to the lungs when the …

RATIONALE: This laboratory study used a model taken from a 7-month infant with soft tissue
face modeling and an anatomically correct oro and nasopharynx to explore medication …

Background: In vitro performance studies of valved holding chamber (VHC)-facemask
systems are a cost-effective means of circumventing potentially confounding clinical …

Inhaled drugs are frequently given to infants and young children with a pressurized metered‐
dose inhaler (pMDI) attached to a valved‐holding chamber (VHC) with face mask. In young …

METHODS: We report the evaluation of a new simulated model of a 7-month obligate nasal
breathing infant (upper airway based on model# 7 in Storey-Bishoff(2008). 39 (12): 1055 …

Background Various hard face models are commonly used to evaluate the efficiency of
aerosol face masks. Softer more realistic “face” surface materials, like skin, deform upon …