Evaluation of nebulisers for bronchial challenge tests.
The reproducibility of the output of seven different nebulisers was tested. Nebulisers with a minimal increase in output at higher flow rates had less variability in the output. The selection of a nebuliser for bronchial provocation tests depends on the intranebuliser variability. Two nebulisers had highly reproducible outputs.
D001985:Bronchial Provocation Tests / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009330:Nebulizers and Vaporizers; D012016:Reference Values