What is a pocket spacer?
The Pocket Chamber incorporates a unique one-way valve between the patient mouthpiece and the chamber body. This highly sensitive, four-leafed silicone valve opens easily and provides little resistance to airflow while preventing patients from inadvertently blowing medication out of the back of the chamber.
What is a spacer device used for?
A spacer, or holding chamber, is an attachment that should always be used with your inhaler. The spacer holds the medicine in place so you can breathe it in easier. If you have any further questions about inhalers, spacers or mouthpieces contact your doctor’s office, asthma care team or pharmacy.
Do I need a prescription for a spacer?
Spacers/VHCs are medical devices. Your doctor can write a prescription for a spacer to go with your inhaler and you will usually get the device at a pharmacy or durable medical equipment (DME) company. If you don’t have a prescription from your doctor for this device, you can buy them online.
What does an AeroChamber do?
A holding chamber or “spacer”, such as an Aerochamber® helps your child use a metered dose inhaler (MDI). Metered Dose Inhalers are used to get medicine directly into the lungs where it is needed. This allows the medicine to work quicker than the same type of medicine taken by liquid or pill form.
What are the advantages of a spacer device?
Benefits of using a spacer with an inhaler include: A spacer gives someone more time to use the inhaler, making the process simpler. It reduces the need for coordination when pressing the inhaler and breathing in the medicine. Spacers extend the amount of time the inhaler takes to deliver medicine.
How do spacer devices work?
Spacers are empty tubes that are usually made from plastic. They slot onto the mouthpiece of your inhaler on one end, and you use a mouthpiece or mask on the spacer at the other end. They help you get the best from your asthma medicine if you use a metered dose inhaler (MDI).
Are spacers covered by insurance?
If the inhaler you are prescribed needs a specific spacer, or if a spacer comes with the inhaler, it may be covered under your pharmacy benefit, even if valved-holding chambers or spacers are usually covered under your DME (durable medical equipment) benefit.
Is an AeroChamber necessary?
It is important for everyone to use a spacer each time they use their inhaler. A spacer is an attachment that fits onto the end of your inhaler. If you use your inhaler without a spacer, then most of the medicine ends up inside your mouth or stomach, instead of your lungs, where it works best.
Are spacers good for asthma?
It makes it easier to take asthma or COPD medication from the type of puffer called an MDI (metered dose inhaler). Spacers help the medication get straight to where it’s needed in your lungs, with less medication ending up in your mouth and throat where it can lead to irritation or mild infections.
How to use a pocket chamber inhaler spacer?
Place the inhaler mouthpiece onto the end of the spacer. Hold the inhaler between your index finger and thumb. Stand up, take a deep breath in, and breathe out as much as you can. 3. Put the end of the spacer into your mouth, between your teeth and above your tongue. Close your lips around the spacer.
What makes an A2A spacer device so effective?
An A2A spacer device is manufactured from a special polymer that incorporates silver ions, which inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungi. Research has demonstrated that microbes will opportunistically establish colonies inside spacer devices.
What’s the best way to clean a spacer?
Gently clean it using a detergent, like washing-up liquid. Just a small number of brands of the spacer are dishwasher protected, so check the product instructions Be careful not to scrub the inside of your spacer as this might affect the way it works. You can scrub the outside of the spacer and the mouthpiece
What kind of polymer is A2A spacer made out of?
A2A spacer is manufactured from a low-static ABS polymer. The component parts are protected from static in manufacture and supplied in anti-static bags. Static in chambers can reduce drug delivery and measures that reduce static are important, especially detergent washing (see instructions).