To provide a complete NHTS EMT-basic refresher course, it is essential that the training include the use of a meter dose inhaler (MDI) device.

What is an MDI? Metered dose inhalers (MDIs) are hand-held devices that utilize propellants which are pressurized to deliver doses of medication to a patient's lungs. Extremely useful and critically important to public health, these delivery devices are designed to administer a variety of active ingrediants for a range of medical conditions.

The Importance of Correct Use: Using MDI correctly means a responder can provide treatment for a patient in respiratory distress. Correct facilitation means the medication being administered has a better chance to reach the small airways, which increases the medication's effectiveness. Using a good technique can also help reduce the side effects of medications. The MDI Training Kit is a key tool for education.

The device consists of a placebo metal canister and a white plastic actuators pricing below for kits or indiviual parts.

"The student should practice the steps in facilitation the use of a handheld inhaler... Needed: handheld inhaler suitable for training purposes."

SPIRITMD.COM Offers the only COMPLETE MDI PACKAGE for your courses. MDI placebo canisters and disposable actuators are available in training kits and individual quantities. These placebo canisters are filled with propellant only, no medication, so the trainees can practice administration on themselves and others safely. Each canister contains approx. two hundred metered doses. One disposable actuator is provided per trainee. The MDI placebo canisters are changed from actuator to actuator at the training stations.

MDI Placebo Training Kits and Components are available exclusively through Boundtree Parr, LLC., Galloway, OH and this website!

Pricing (includes shipping & handling):

• MDI Training Kit (2 MDI Placebos & 25 Actuators) ...$115 (New Price Effective 11/01/09)
• 5 MDI Placebos ...$120
• 10 MDI Placebos ...$220
• 50 Actuators ...$111.25 (New Price Effective 11/01/09)
• 100 Actuators ...$186.25 (New Price Effective 11/01/09)