Students at Central Alabama Community College (CACC) recently conducted a research study on saline jet nebulization, a breathing treatment prescribed by medical professionals for a variety of respiratory illnesses.
The results of the project, aimed at understanding how much medicine a patient receives during a typical breathing treatment, were published last week in the Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy.
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