Irish start-up MDI Plus has announced the availability of its novel metered dose inhaler carton, which can be used as a spacer. The carton/spacer includes holes in each end of the cardboard box, with an opening on one end shaped to accommodate the inhaler mouthpiece and an opening on the other end for inhalation. According to the company’s web site, the carton can be customized for use with different MDIs and has demonstrated performance similar to an AeroChamber spacer.
The company suggests that using the carton as a spacer is inexpensive, convenient, and sustainable. Patients can store and carry the inhaler inside the carton so that they always have a spacer available, and the MDI Plus web site says that testing showed that patients can learn to use the cardboard spacer correctly faster than a plastic spacer.
MDI Plus Managing Director David Little commented, “We are delighted to bring this solution to market. We’ve searched for an accessible solution to improve pMDI delivery and compliance, carried out multiple, In-vivo and In-vitro tests and have now proved the hypothesis. Like all good innovations the simple ones are the best. The MDI Plus spacer is smaller but equivalent to the market leading plastic spacers and is superior to using a pMDI alone. The results left us in no doubt, that the MDI Plus spacer solution, was a game changer for developing regions and for all patients, in emergency situations.”
Read the MDI Plus press release.
