Training improves the handling of inhaler devices and reduces the severity of symptoms in geriatric patients suffering from chronic-obstructive pulmonary disease
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DOI: 10.1186/s12877-020-01804-4
Abstract: Purpose Elderly patients with impaired vision, cognitive decline or motor/sensory disturbances of their fingers suffering from chronic-obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) encounter difficulties in handling inhaler devices used as the cornerstones of treatment of pulmonary obstruction.… read more here.
Keywords: intervention; chronic obstructive; inhaler; inhaler devices ... See more keywords