BACKGROUND Appropriate use of inhaled therapies for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is critical to ensuring good patient outcomes, efficient use of healthcare resources and limiting the effects of high-morbidity. The appropriate choice of inhaler and active therapy, incorporating patient preferences, can help improve treatment adherence and long-term outcomes. Despite th...

OBJECTIVE This primary objective of this pilot randomized, controlled trial was to determine whether a brief video intervention delivered after a pediatric office visit could improve inhaler technique in children with asthma immediately and one month later. The intervention's effect on children's inhaler self-efficacy and asthma control was also evaluated. METHODS Children (n=91) ages 7-17 ye...

Budesonide/formoterol in a single inhaler was compared with budesonide alone, and with concurrent administration of budesonide and formoterol from separate inhalers, in patients with asthma, not controlled with inhaled glucocorticosteroids alone. In this 12-week, double-blind, randomized, double-dummy study, 362 adult asthmatics (forced expiratory volume in one second 73.8% of predicted, inhale...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate inhaler technique in outpatients with asthma and to determine associations between the correctness of that technique and the level of asthma control. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study involving patients > 14 years of age with physician-diagnosed asthma. The patients were recruited from the Asthma Outpatient Clinic of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, in th...

BACKGROUND Usability (ease of use) is an important feature of inhalers to ensure optimal dose delivery OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the usability of a multidose dry powder inhaler (mDPI) and a capsule dry powder inhaler (cDPI) in older individuals, using a range of qualitative and quantitative techniques from the field of cognitive ergonomics. METHODS Participants aged >50...

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Salmeterol + Fluticasone propionate (Seretide) 25/50mcg Metered Dose Inhaler: Each single actuation provides salmeterol xinafoate equivalent to 25mcg of salmeterol and 50mcg of fluticasone propionate. Salmeterol + Fluticasone propionate (Seretide) 25/125mcg Metered Dose Inhaler: Each single actuation provides salmeterol xinafoate equivalent to 25mcg of salmeterol and 125mcg ...

BACKGROUND patients with dementia are almost invariably unable to use any form of inhaler. Some elderly patients are unable to learn to use a metered dose inhaler or Turbohaler despite a normal abbreviated mental test score. Studies have shown that in many people this is due to unrecognised cognitive impairment and/or dyspraxia. The executive domains of cognition are particularly important in p...

responses to salbutamol using Diskhaler versus metered-dose inhaler. Comparison of the bronchodilating efficacies of a novel salbutamol metered dose powder inhaler and a pressurised metered dose aerosol with a spacer. Efficacy of a new non-ozone depleting formulation for salbutamol. Comparison of inhaled ter-butaline administered by either the Turbuhaler dry powder or a metered-dose inhaler wit...

BACKGROUND Dry powder inhalers (DPIs) are often used in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) therapies. Using the discrete choice experiment (DCE) methodology, this study conducted in France was designed to assess patients' preferences for different attributes of DPIs. METHODS Attributes of DPIs were defined based on a literature review, patient focus group discussions and ...