For many COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patients, aerosol therapy might be the right therapeutic solution. Aerosol therapy is used to administer drugs (steroids, antibiotics and bronchodilators) in many respiratory conditions such as asthma or COPD. As COPD affects the lungs, it is logical to treat exacerbations in them in the most direct way possible. Devices such as hand-held nebulizers offer an easy and effective way to deliver the needed drugs right into the lungs. Useful drugs can be airway-dilators or anti-inflammatory agents, which offer relief for some of the symptoms of COPD.
There is a difference between short-acting and long-acting bronchodilators; short-acting bronchodilators bring relief to acute exacerbations whereas long-term bronchodilators may prevent such acute phases with limited side-effects.
For the treatment of COPD, Linde Gas Therapeutics is able to provide:
- medicinal air
- medicinal oxygen
- aerosol generators
- hand held nebulizers