Switching from CFC to HFA Inhalers: What NPs and Their Patients Need to Know.

Am J Nurse Pract

Barbara Velsor-Friedrich is a professor and faculty scholar and Lisa Kinsella Militello is a pediatric nurse practitioner and project director of the TEAM Asthma Program, both at the Niehoff School of Nursing at Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. Kelly K. Zinn is an assistant professor at Nebraska Methodist College in Omaha.Darla K. DeWolff is a nurse practitioner and an assistant professor at West Suburban College of Nursing in Oak Park, Illinois.

Published: October 2009

The aim of this article is to provide nurse practitioners with a better understanding of the transition from chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) to hydrofluoralkane (HFA) metered-dose inhalers (MDIs). The authors discuss the differences in these products' propellants; the proper use, cost, and efficacy of the HFA inhalers; and the implications of the switch for NPs and for their patients with asthma.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4675349PMC

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