ArticleNPJ primary care respiratory medicine2024
Uncovering patterns of inhaler technique and reliever use: the value of objective, personalized data from a digital inhaler.
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- Emerging Therapeutic Strategies in Asthma: Advances in Treatment, Drug Delivery, Drug Adherence, and Disease Management.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2026Review
- Inhalation: A Smart Strategy and Increasing Potential for Drug Delivery.Drug design, development and therapy · 2026Review
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Abstract
Electronic inhalers provide information about patterns of routine inhaler use. During a 12-week study, 360 asthma patients using albuterol Digihaler generated 53,083 inhaler events that were retrospectively analyzed. A total of 41,528 (78%) of the recorded inhalation events were suitable for flow analysis (having a PIF ≥ 18 L/min and <120 L/min). Median PIF, inhalation volume, inhalation duration, and time to PIF for these events steadily decreased between the first and last 10 days of the study, by 5.1%, 12.6%, 15.9%, and 6.4%, respectively. Continuous short-acting beta
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