Comments on: Cheap asthma treatment using a homemade spacer http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/08/cheap-asthma-treatment-using-a-homemade-spacer.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Classof65http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/08/cheap-asthma-treatment-using-a-homemade-spacer.html#comment-109115 Classof65 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:13:53 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=39350#comment-109115 I love it! I worked for Marquest Medical for 10 years. We manufactured (mostly) disposable medical devices -- ABG syringes, nebulizers, cannulae, respiratory and anesthesia circuits. If only our engineers would have been as imaginative as the person who devised this device. Maybe we'd still be in business today instead of being absorbed by Vital Signs... Classof65 I love it! I worked for Marquest Medical for 10 years. We manufactured (mostly) disposable medical devices — ABG syringes, nebulizers, cannulae, respiratory and anesthesia circuits. If only our engineers would have been as imaginative as the person who devised this device. Maybe we’d still be in business today instead of being absorbed by Vital Signs…
Classof65

]]> By: Vickyhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/08/cheap-asthma-treatment-using-a-homemade-spacer.html#comment-109098 Vicky Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:27:09 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=39350#comment-109098 Love the creativity. Very Cheech and Chong. Love the creativity. Very Cheech and Chong.

]]> By: Guesthttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/08/cheap-asthma-treatment-using-a-homemade-spacer.html#comment-109097 Guest Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:13:58 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=39350#comment-109097 Great idea but will the plastic bottle cause harm ala BPA, etc.? Great idea but will the plastic bottle cause harm ala BPA, etc.?

]]> By: GingerBhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/08/cheap-asthma-treatment-using-a-homemade-spacer.html#comment-109089 GingerB Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:22:43 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=39350#comment-109089 If you've got a kid getting meds and needs school or camp to have the whole set-up it would be helpful to rig something like this up.I can imagine that a school or camp might give you a hard time about a homemade device, they usually want everything to be perfect to the letter. If it were me I'd keep the homemade one at home and sent the one I bought off crossing my fingers it would eventually come back. If you’ve got a kid getting meds and needs school or camp to have the whole set-up it would be helpful to rig something like this up.

I can imagine that a school or camp might give you a hard time about a homemade device, they usually want everything to be perfect to the letter. If it were me I’d keep the homemade one at home and sent the one I bought off crossing my fingers it would eventually come back.

]]> By: ninguemhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/08/cheap-asthma-treatment-using-a-homemade-spacer.html#comment-109085 ninguem Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:19:10 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=39350#comment-109085 I did some third world mission work. It's amazing sometimes. One local saw the anesthetics, said "I can do that", and made a damn good EMO-type vaporizer (used for diethyl ether), out of a paint can and salvaged parts.Impoverished, but not stupid. I did some third world mission work. It’s amazing sometimes. One local saw the anesthetics, said “I can do that”, and made a damn good EMO-type vaporizer (used for diethyl ether), out of a paint can and salvaged parts.

Impoverished, but not stupid.

]]> By: Chuck Brookshttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/08/cheap-asthma-treatment-using-a-homemade-spacer.html#comment-109081 Chuck Brooks Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:32:27 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=39350#comment-109081 Imagine the positive results if this kind of ingenuity were allowed in the health industry. Think of the savings in time and, not least, money, and perhaps even more wondrous to contemplate, the elimination of the bureaucracies and government meddling. Chuck Brooks FutureWare SCG Imagine the positive results if this kind of ingenuity were allowed in the health industry. Think of the savings in time and, not least, money, and perhaps even more wondrous to contemplate, the elimination of the bureaucracies and government meddling.
Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG

]]> By: Eduardo Alvaradohttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/08/cheap-asthma-treatment-using-a-homemade-spacer.html#comment-109077 Eduardo Alvarado Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:07:55 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=39350#comment-109077 Very good news for developing countries : homemade devices are ass effective as the conventional one. We have been using this "adaptations" (even using the ClNa bottles) for long time ago in Peru, where many people cannot afford the conventional spacers (US$ 6). Very good news for developing countries : homemade devices are ass effective as the conventional one. We have been using this “adaptations” (even using the ClNa bottles) for long time ago in Peru, where many people cannot afford the conventional spacers (US$ 6).

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