[Indications and modalities of non-standard inhaled treatments for respiratory pathologies: A narrative review].

Inhaled treatments represent a pillar in pneumology management, especially insofar as they allow for optimal local delivery of therapeutic agents. In addition to bronchodilators and corticosteroids, numerous inhalation-based treatments exist. Some of them are little known by clinicians, such as mucolytic drugs, antibiotics, saline solutions, morphine derivatives, prophylactic agents such as pentamidine, etc. Each of these treatments has specific indications and requires specific means of administration according to the nature of the medicine, the type of nebulizer being used, and a given patient's clinical characteristics. The present narrative review of the literature describes and synthesizes the indications and modalities of these different treatments, to the exclusion of asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, and ventilated intensive care patients.