[Usefulness of teaching how to manage the pressurized canister and the Turbuhaler system in hospitalized patients].

Objective: [corrected] To assess knowledge of how to use a pressurized canister (PC) or Turbuhaler (TB) systems and to evaluate the usefulness of giving technical instruction to hospitalized patients, analyzing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients according to degree of obstruction.

Method: We evaluated the use of the PC by 107 consecutive patients and the TB by 79 patients upon their admission to the respiratory medicine ward, with reference to the guidelines of the Spanish Society of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Surgery. We then evaluated the usefulness of instruction PC or TB technique.