Do sinusoidal models of respiration accurately reflect the respiratory events of patients breathing on nebulizers?
The amount of drug that is delivered by nebulization is a combination of the physical properties of the agent being nebulized, the performance of the nebulizer, and the pattern of breathing of the patient. To avoid biological variation, mechanical models of breathing are frequently employed during the evaluation of the performance of a device. For simplicity, many investigators use sinusoidal models of breathing to calculate the expected inhaled mass, although some use square waves and other more complex models. Most assume that the duration of inspiration (Ti) is half of the total respiratory time (Ttot). This study compared the calculated inhaled mass from which the expected pulmonary deposition was estimated from the actual pattern of breathing of 43 children with cystic fibrosis (CF) breathing from an unvented nebulizer with a low dead volume and appropriate particle size distribution with that from a sinusoidal pattern of breathing using the same tidal volume (VT) and respiratory
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