8/31/2008

A bike pump nebulizer adapter (and how about a bike powered nebulizer?)

Problem: Providing nebulized asthma medications when there is no electricity available. MDI or HFA inhalers are definitely an option but some people need more medicine than these can provide.

Summary: John D. Klich has a patent on nebulizer bike pump adapter which filters the air through a device that fits between the pump and the nebulizer.

Two posted discussions both suggest and discourage the use of a bike pump to operate a nebulizer.

But the bike technology best suited for nebulizer function may be the bike itself, which could be used to power the nebulizer's own compressor. This would help circumvent the problem of oil and other foreign matter from the bike pump entering the nebulizer. I hope to work on this idea at some point. I'm sure it's been done already, but I haven't found any documentation on it yet.

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