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1 Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital, and University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
2 Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Children’s Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Correspondence to:
Martin H Schöni, Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital, Berne, CH-3010, Switzerland; martin-heinrich.schoeni@insel.ch
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We read with interest the original article by Cohen et al about prescribing asthma drugs, which was published in the October issue of this journal.1 The paper reports, in line with other publications, the difficulty of implementing asthma guidelines. Indeed, it is a challenge for all professionals who prescribe inhalation therapy to achieve good adherence to proposed and validated asthma treatment.
In the same volume of the journal, a thoughtful article about the safeguarding of children being the responsibility of everyone, especially the caring doctors, is published.2
In the view of these two articles, we see it as our responsibility to point out to the readers that the picture on the cover of the issue of a girl inhaling with an pressurised metered dose inhaler (pMDI) neither agrees with the international guidelines for applying inhalation therapy nor fulfils the criteria for safeguarding children from wrong inhalation procedures. In fact,
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