Inhaler blues?

AR McIvor - CMAJ, 2011 - Can Med Assoc
1. Hodder R, Lougheed MD, Rowe BH, et al. Management of acute asthma in adults in the
emergency department: nonventilatory management. CMAJ 2010; 182: 55-67. 2. Horn CR …

Emergency department management of life-threatening asthma: are nebulizers obsolete?

MT Newhouse - Chest, 1993 - journal.chestnet.org
Given the worldwide drive to contain rapidly rising health care costs, it seems surprising that
wet nebulizers (WNs) continue to be widely regarded as first-line aerosol generation and …

Delivery of β-agonists in the emergency department setting: Metered-dose inhalers or nebulizers?

GJ Rodrigo - Chest, 2005 - journal.chestnet.org
In a recent issue of CHEST (January 2005), Dolovich et al1 reported on evidence-based
guidelines for device selection and the outcomes of aerosol therapy. Overall, I agree with the …

Asthma therapy: there are guidelines, and then there is real life…

CJ Corrigan - Primary Care Respiratory Journal: Journal of the …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Modern asthma guidelines such as our UK BTS/SIGN national guidelines1 inform us that we
should aim to control most of our asthma patients near enough perfectly. This control is …

[HTML][HTML] Asthma still kills: little change over five decades

ML Levy - Npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 2014 - nature.com
This was a confidential enquiry conducted by the Royal College of Physicians on behalf of
the Health Quality Improvement Partnership in the UK. Of the 3,544 UK deaths with a …

Has the time come to end use of the blue inhaler?

A Bush, SR Dalziel, CA Byrnes, L Hatter… - The Lancet Respiratory …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Asthma attacks can lead to death, and new approaches to prevent asthma deaths,
particularly in children and adolescents, are clearly needed, as highlighted by Abrams and …

[PDF][PDF] Inhalation therapy: help patients avoid these mistakes

CM George, M Schrock - J Fam Pract, 2011 - cdn.mdedge.com
For patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmo-nary disease (COPD), inhalation
therapy is the foundation of treatment. Yet all too often, patients don't get the full value of …

Preventing out-of-hospital asthma deaths

WFS Sellers - Thorax, 2015 - thorax.bmj.com
Ten-year-old Cameron Good died from an asthma attack in November 2014; it began during
his football match, and news reports highlighted the inability of bystanders to oxygenate …

[HTML][HTML] Is the 'blue'colour convention for inhaled reliever medications important? A UK-based survey of healthcare professionals and patients with airways disease

M Fletcher, J Scullion, J White, B Thompson… - NPJ Primary Care …, 2016 - nature.com
In many countries, short-acting β 2-agonist inhalers have traditionally been coloured blue.
This inhaled therapy has also conventionally been known as a 'reliever'by patients and …

Dry powder inhalers are environmentally preferable to metered-dose inhalers

K Wintemute, F Miller - CMAJ, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
In their CMAJ commentary, Drs. Beauchesne and Lemiere outlined the key practice changes
recommended in the 2019 Global Initiative for Asthma report. 1 As they noted, available …