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Review: home-made and commercial spacers did not differ for delivery of inhaled β2 agonists in children with asthma or wheezing
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C Rodriguez-Martinez
Dr C Rodriguez-Martinez, Clínica Colsánitas, Bogota, Colombia; carlos_rodriguez2671@yahoo.com
In children with acute asthma or lower airway obstruction attacks, how do home-made and commercial spacers attached to metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) compare for delivering β2 agonists?
Studies selected compared rapid-acting β2 agonists delivered by MDIs attached to home-made spacers with MDIs attached to commercial spacers in children and adolescents <18 years of age presenting to the emergency department (ED) with acute exacerbations of wheezing or asthma. Outcomes included hospital admission, lung function (peak expiratory flow rate [PEFR], oxygen saturation, and respiratory rate), heart rate, clinical score, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, length of ED stay, and need for additional treatment.
Medline, CINAHL, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Library (Issue 3, 2007), LILACS, and reference lists were searched. Authors and pharmaceutical companies were contacted for randomised controlled trials (RCTs). 6 RCTs (n = 658, age range 2
Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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