Patent ID: 8015969
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A semi-automatic emergency medication dose nebulizer comprising: a medication dosage capsule storage chamber embedded into and projecting outwardly from a nebulizer housing having a nebulizing chamber within said housing to receive liquid medication dosage; said nebulizer chamber having an opening in a bottom of said housing to receive compressed air from a compressor for nebulizing said liquid medication dosage; a horizontally extending breather above said nebulizer housing joined to said housing through a connecting tube extending vertically from said breather having a mouthpiece for use by a patient to receive said nebulized medication; an apparatus for refilling said nebulizing chamber with medication; said apparatus comprising said medication capsule storage chamber having an opening receiving a liquid medication dosage capsule containing a liquid medication; said capsule storage chamber having a pair of opposite ends, one of said ends being an inner nebulizer end fixed communicating with said nebulizing chamber and wherein said opposite end is an outer end, said capsule storage chamber projecting radially outward from said nebulizing chamber within said nebulizer housing so that an outer end of said capsule storage chamber is accessible to a user; said medication dosage capsule having an inner end having a pressure-burstable seal, said inner end being nested near said inner end of said capsule storage chamber when said medication capsule is within said capsule storage chamber; wherein said outer end of said capsule storage chamber includes a means for applying pressure to said medication within said medication dosage capsule to cause said seal to be dislodged out of the inner end of said cartridge and into said nebulization chamber thereby releasing all of the medication within said cartridge at once into said nebulizing chamber, said medication dosage capsule having a handle for dropping said medication dosage into said capsule storage chamber, said handle having a leading edge to block forward movement of said medication capsule when pressure is applied to said medication within said medication dosage capsule.