Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic lung condition characterized by loss of lung elasticity, which leads to dysfunctional gaseous exchange. COPD is the third leading cause of ...

These new findings may help shape both the design and the use of an educational intervention on technology-based inhaler techniques for patients with pediatric asthma. These results were the product ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One-time training sessions only provide temporary improvements in technique. Digital technologies may help ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a new study, a high proportion of patients with COPD used their pressurized metered dose inhalers incorrectly ...

A Korean woman is at a medical consultation. She has asthma and her doctor is holding a puffer. The patient is listening intently as the doctor explains how to use the device correctly. The two are ...

Unless they have been taught how to use their dry-powder inhalers, patients may not be getting any medication, a German pulmonologist reports. Siegfried Wieshammer, MD, studied 224 consecutive asthma ...

It was the respiratory therapist (RT) in charge of smoking cessation who first showed me a peak inspiratory flow meter with known resistance (PIFr). Dry-powder inhalers require inspiratory force for ...

A new study published today in the JournalofAllergyandClinical Immunology:In Practice highlights important findings from the international CRITIKAL study [1] (CRITical Inhaler mistaKes and Asthma ...