Inhalation Therapy

Inhalation therapies are a group of respiratory, or breathing, treatments designed to help restore or improve breathing function in patients with a variety of diseases, conditions, or injuries. The treatments range from at-home oxygen therapy for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to mechanical ventilation for patients with acute respiratory failure. Inhalation therapies usually include the following categories:

  • Oxygen therapy
  • Incentive spirometry
  • Continuous positive
  • airway pressure (CPAP)
  • Oxygen chamber therapy
  • Mechanical ventilation
  • Newborn life support.