Patent ID: 8196573

Claim:
A system for intermittent delivery of an aerosolized medicament, the system comprising: an aerosol generator that aerosolizes a medicament; a controller, that: receives physiological characteristic information about a patient; receives information about the type of medicament being delivered; stores at least some of the physiological characteristic information; selects a mode of operation from a plurality of modes based at least in part on the type of medicament being delivered, each mode prescribing a respective first condition for determining when within the patient's breathing cycle aerosolization is started and a respective second condition for determining when within the patient's breathing cycle aerosolization is stopped; and controls the aerosol generator based at least in part on the stored physiological characteristic information and according to the selected mode of operation; and a conduit through which the aerosolized medicament is supplied to the patient's airway.