Inhaler Spacers

Check consent – ask the client if they are ready for their medication
There are several brands of inhaler spacers
Volumatic, Nebuhaler, AeroChamber, Able Spacer and Space Chamber plus
Spacers are important because they help to deliver asthma medicine to your lungs. They also make your inhaler easier to use and reduce the risk of side effects. Spacers are very important because:

they make aerosol inhalers easier to use and more effective
you get more medicine into your lungs than when just using the inhaler on its own
they are convenient and compact and work at least as well as nebulisers at treating most asthma attacks in children and adults
they help to reduce the possibility of side effects from the higher doses of preventer medicines by reducing the amount of medicine that is swallowed and absorbed into the body