Sunalene G. Devadason

TL;DR: A collaboration of multidisciplinary experts on the delivery of pharmaceutical aerosols was facilitated by the European Respiratory Society and the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine to draw up a consensus statement with clear, up-to-date recommendations that enable the pulmonary physician to choose the type of aerosol delivery device that is most suitable for their patient.

TL;DR: It is indicated that in addition to effects on developing airways, maternal smoking also has significant immunological effects in pregnancy, which could contribute to the well recognised, subsequent increased risk of respiratory infections and asthma.

TL;DR: This data indicates that adherence with preventive asthma medication by young children is an important factor when evaluating a suboptimal response to treatment and few data exist regarding the accuracy of subjective measures of adherence.

TL;DR: A recently proposed method for classifying preschool wheeze is to describe it as either episodic (viral) Wheeze or multiple trigger wheeza, which is generally determined by retrospective questionnaire.

TL;DR: Measuring adherence and providing feedback increases the use of preventive medication and there were significant improvements in clinical measures of disease control compared with baseline in both groups.