Patent ID: 7997265

Claim:
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; wherein said capsule storage chamber includes a means for opening said medication capsule to release liquid medication from said liquid medication dosage capsule and into said nebulizing chamber thereby releasing all of the liquid medication within said cartridge at once into said nebulizing chamber; said nebulizer further comprising a nebulizer cradle tower comprising a base, a housing and a cradle holding said nebulizer and an emergency bypass switch wherein the nebulizer is set up for immediate use by a user while in a stressful asthma attack; wherein when the nebulizer is on said cradle and said liquid medication dosage capsule is pre-loaded in the storage chamber ready for discharge into the nebulizing chamber, said compressor automatically starts when said nebulizer is lifted off said cradle.