Smart electronic dose counter for pressurized metered dose inhaler

According to Global Asthma Report 2014, asthma may affect as many as 334 million people today and prevalence. While symptoms and severity vary from person to person, asthma can be deadly in some circumstances. Asthma can be controlled by medicine. However, one of the hardest parts of controlling ast...

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Published in2015 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) p. 1
Main Authors Chen-Chia Chen, Yi-Jun Liu, Gang-Neng Sung, Chih-Chyau Yang, Chieh-Ming Wu, Chun-Ming Huang
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2015
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asthma
Batteries
Biomedical imaging
counter
Electronic mail
History
inhaler
Laboratories
medical
Medical services
mobile
Radiation detectors
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Summary:According to Global Asthma Report 2014, asthma may affect as many as 334 million people today and prevalence. While symptoms and severity vary from person to person, asthma can be deadly in some circumstances. Asthma can be controlled by medicine. However, one of the hardest parts of controlling asthma is making sure patients are getting the right does of medicine through their inhaler based on doctor's instructions. However, the patients, especially children, frequently miss doses or even forget to use it. In this study, our proposed electronic dose counter directly attached to pressurized metered dose inhaler without modification original inhaler structure, that is used to record the times and timestamps of doses actuated by patients. The dose information automatically uploads and displays in an inhaler APP ran on a smartphone. Moreover, the inhaler APP also reminds the patients when they forget to use it in right time. Overall cost of the electronics dose counter is ~5. Our low-cost smart inhaler counter with inhaler APP could be lowered healthcare cost and saved lives.
DOI:10.1109/BioCAS.2015.7348320