Inhaler technique training with regular checks and assessment needs to be an integral part of the routine management of any patient with COPD. Incorrect inhaler technique is common among patients with asthma or COPD. In COPD, this could result in suboptimal disease control, raising the risk of absences from work. Unnecessary increases in medication dosage, exacerbations requiring oral corticosteroid treatment, and potential side-effects.

COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a progressive disease that makes it hard to breathe. "Progressive" means the disease gets worse over time. COPD can cause coughing that produces symptoms like large amounts of mucus, wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and other symptoms.

Bronchial asthma affects millions of people across the globe. The condition is characterized by inflammation of the airways that ultimately causes a greater degree of breathlessness and wheezing. The primary treatment for managing bronchial asthma is respiratory inhalers. These are safe and effective and provide excellent control of this rather distressing condition. Inhaler technique is important and with correct inhaler technique comes good delivery of the drug and an excellent effect on the patient’s symptoms.

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Asthma is caused most commonly by various triggers. Asthma triggers make your asthma worse. Everyone experiences different sets of asthma triggers. The best way to control your Asthma is to avoid, prevent or manage your triggers.

Asthma triggers are things that make your asthma worse. Asthma triggers help cause asthma symptoms or severe asthma attacks. Asthma triggers irritate the airways in your lungs. The airways swell and make a lot of mucus, which blocks them and makes it hard to breathe. Talk to your doctor about which triggers you should avoid to control your Asthma.

Over 500 million patients worldwide require an inhaler for treatment, and up to 70% of these patients do not know how to use their inhalers correctly.

A huge cause of this is health care providers who are not up to date or refreshed on the proper methods.We need to find a way to educate these patients more effectively. Online CEUs can help! Learn material anytime, anywhere in an interactive, simple way.

Along with Use-inhalers.com there are several other online programs that provide CEUs

American Pharmacists Association:

An app designed by Apple for iOS 8, finally gives us a way to put data from all kinds of Health and fitness apps in one place

Apps, software specifically designed for and available on smart phones and tablets, have been enthusiastically adopted by users of smart phones and tablets and proposed as a delivery mechanism for self-management of Asthma intervention

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A COPD inhaler can help patients with COPD breathe more easily.

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