Video: Parts of a Nebulizer

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Learn the different parts of a nebulizer and how to put them together with expert medical tips in this free vaporized medicine video clip.

Video Transcript

There are several different components to the nebuilzer. Obviously first off you have the actually air compressor itself and then you have the cord that's attached to that. Here is the off and on switch right here. Then this is the tubing and this delivers the air that makes the whole machine work. I will mention it probably a few times throughout the series, that it is very important that you keep this tubing dry, you never want to put any kind of water in it. And then over here we have some of the various different pieces that help the medicine actually go up into the lungs. Here's an example of a place that you would put the liquid medication. It will go in here underneath, it actually goes underneath that cone there and then you would seal that together. Then you've got the tubing here and depending on how the age of the person that is using it, you're going to use different kinds of appropriatest to actually put on their face. Like this is the mask right here obviously for use with a young child, the dinosaur, they have different kinds that will help enhance the child's experience in using the nebuilzer. But for younger children or people that aren't just going to tolerate the mess, there's another way to put the pieces together so that they're not actually having something connected to their face.

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Parts of a Nebulizer

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