Chapter 4: Using a Spacer with a Mask

In part 4 of 7 of UNC Children’s asthma education video series, pediatric asthma nurse, Lisa Alarcon, demonstrates how to use a spacer with a mask, how to use a nebulizer, and how to properly clean the spacer.

[@YellowDuck123]

How to make the child behave when using aerochamber? They seem to hate having the mask on.

[@Moving_Forward247]

Great video (I'm a pediatrician). BUT a question on cleaning: vid says to rinse the parts. What I've read is you should use dilute solution of dish soap and water (3-4 drops soap to gallon water) and NOT rinse it. The rationale is a small amount of remaining soap reduces the electromagnetic charge in the spacer and prevents the medicine from sticking to the sides of a plastic spacer--doing it via this method increases drug delivery by up to four fold (information from uptodate). This video does mention reducing static charge in the spacer, but advises to rinse the parts after washing (i.e. advises to do the thing that would increase medication adherence to the sides of the spacer). Please clarify and correct the video as necessary. Thank you for this high quality video.

[@katharinekevill1792]

Great video. I'd like to share it with our patients at Stony Brook Children's on Long Island. Do we need your permission?

[@NCChildrensHospital]

Hi Katharine - We are glad to help your patients - please link directly to the video (ie, don't download it and host it on your own website) using the "share" feature. We need the traffic counts to support our video budget! - UNC Children's

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Is it nebuliser?

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Wow!😮

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