Automated actuation of nasal spray products: determination and comparison of adult and pediatric settings.

Objective: To determine and compare patient-relevant settings for automated nasal spray actuation stations from adult and pediatric hand data.

Methods: Twenty adults and 20 pediatric participants were asked to spray Flonase(®) Nasal Spray six times in a Hand Actuation Monitor, which records force and displacement data in 5-ms increments. Settings for force- and velocity-controlled actuation stations were determined from the data using a predefined set of calculations.

Improving asthma communication in high-risk children.

Few child asthma studies address the specific content and techniques needed to enhance child communication during asthma preventive care visits. This study examined the content of child and parent communications regarding their asthma management during a medical encounter with their primary care provider (PCP). The majority of parents and children required prompting to communicate symptom information to the PCP during the clinic visit.