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- Published on: 22 March 2016
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- Published on: 22 March 2016Re: Coffee cup Spacers versus Bottle spacers for MDIsShow More
Dear Editor,
We thank Dr Speight for raising the possibility of using a coffee cup spacer to obviate the use of a face mask. In fact, we began the search for an effective homemade spacer by investigating the clinical efficacy of both a coffee cup spacer and a bottle spacer. Unfortunately, we found that the cup performed very poorly as a spacer. In aerosol deposition studies of children we found a polystyrene cup produ...
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None declared. - Published on: 22 March 2016Coffee cup Spacers versus Bottle spacers for MDIsShow More
Dear Editor,
Zar et al(1) are to be congratulated for their important paper regarding the efficacy of "bottle spacers" for delivering beta 2 agonists in acute asthma in the under 5s. Clearly this bit of intermediate technology will facilitate delivery of treatment to large numbers of asthmatic children in resource-poor countries, and is equally relevant to practice in more fortunate countries, none of whom have inf...
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