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Nostrum Technology LLC

Michael T Newhouse

Vijay Shukla

K Mosaddeq Hossain

Paresh Vasandani

Israel Amirav

Asaf Halamish

Bruce Kalman Rubin

W Douglas Baines

A breathing mask for use in administering inhalable medications to a patient in need of an inhaled drug is provided. The mask disclosed herein is particularly useful for use with very young children. The mask is made from a flexible molded plastic silicone or elastomeric material, and has an anthropometrically/anatomically/ergonomically contoured shape to provide a good seal, a comfortable fit, and minimal dead space within the mask. The airway is aligned with nose. There may be an orifice for use with a soother device to calm a child using the mask. Also provided is a visual flow indicator to provide an indication of the quality of the seal of the mask on the face.

Mask for administration of inhaled medication

A breathing mask for use in administering inhalable medications to a patient in need of an inhaled drug is provided. The mask disclosed herein is particularly useful for use with very young children. The mask is made from a flexible molded plastic silicone or elastomeric material, and has an anthropometrically/anatoinically/ergonomically contoured shape to provide a good seal, a comfortable fit, and minimal dead space within the mask. The airway is aligned with nose. There may be an orifice for use with a soother device to calm a child using the mask. Also provided is a visual flow indicator to provide an indication of the quality of the seal of the mask on the face.

The invention shows means for holding a cylindrical medicine expansion chamber and spaced from it a cylindrical body having a nipple. The medication chamber has a mask which will just fit over a baby's nose with very little clearance. The medication chamber and the bottle are received in a holder having front and back walls, and set screws to push the medication holder and bottle against the adjoining walls.

Pernasal application of aerosol medication

This disclosure is of a surfactant mixed with an aerosollizing agent, and deposited by such agent, as a treatment for airway obstruction. It has been extensively tested, and has proved successful. It has been hypothesized that the addition of a hypersmolor drug will help to minimize mucus in the airways.

Use of surface active agents to promote mucus clearance

A powder inhaler and process are provided for aerosolizing finely powdered or pulverized medication and a gas provided in a pillow or blister-type container of extremely thin elastic suitable plastic construction. The pillow is compressed between an anvil with a conical depression and a confronting conical piston. The conical depression has a small orifice at its apex, and the periphery of the pillow is restrained so that compression between the conical pillow and the conical depression produces explosive rupture of the pillow and exit of the gas and medication at a very high speed up to supersonic through said orifice. Medication particle clumps are very efficiently separated into separate particles, and the gas/medication exiting from the orifice are conveyed through a very small area linear or curved tube to a dispersal chamber or directly to a patient, movement through the tube producing a shearing action further enhancing separation of aggregated particles of powder medication.

Dry powder inhaler and process that explosively discharges a dose of

A powdered medication inhaler is provided which comprises a body having a hollow chamber of substantial height. Powdered medication is transferred from a hopper by a dosing blade having an amperture therein to a transfer station opening into a chamber. In most embodiments of the invention the transfer station is adjacent the upper portion of the chamber, but in one embodiment it is adjacent the lower portion thereof. When the transfer station is adjacent the upper portion of the chamber it includes a pallet or cup on which powdered medication is dropped or blown from the dosing blade. Gas then carries the medication from the cup or pallet into the chamber for inhalation by a patient. In the embodiment in which the transfer station is adjacent the bottom of the chamber compressed gas blows the powder up into the chamber.

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Hamilton, Canada

Michael T Newhouse