Respiratory drug delivery apparatus which provides audio instructions
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsDirk Von Hollen, Robert Koshinske
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Abstract
A respiratory drug delivery apparatus that includes a housing for holding a source of a medication, wherein the housing has a patient interface portion for delivering one or more doses of the medication to an airway of a patient, and a sound generator coupled to the housing. The sound generator is adapted to generate one or more audible instructions in response to an actuation signal. The actuation signal may generated in response to a manual actuation performed by the patient, or in response to the detection of an event relating to operation of the apparatus.
Claims84
A respiratory drug delivery apparatus, comprising:
- a housing for holding a source of a medication, said housing having a patient interface portion for delivering one or more doses of said medication to an airway of a patient;
- and
- a sound generator coupled to said housing, said sound generator, in response to an actuation signal, being adapted to generate one or more audible instructions.
A method of encouraging proper use of a respiratory drug delivery apparatus, comprising:
- detecting on said respiratory drug delivery apparatus that a predetermined instruction triggering event has occurred;
- and
- generating one or more audible instructions relating to proper use of said respiratory drug delivery apparatus from said respiratory drug delivery apparatus in response to said detecting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.