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Item Nivel de conocimiento sobre la aplicación de la técnica de inhaloterapia para pacientes con enfermedad respiratoria crónica por parte de estudiantes de la facultad de salud de una institución de educación superior(Universidad Santiago de Cali, 2020) Castaño Palacios, Kelly Yuliana; Salas Segura, Sally Alexandra; Endo Collazos, Nayibe; Ramírez correa, CesarFor chronic lung diseases the inhaled pathway is part of the maintenance treatment and also of rescue in the exacerbations asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Proper use of this treatment will allow good control of the pathology, but reports have been found showing that 75% of COPD patients’ regular exacerbations of their symptoms that tend to increase progressively in frequency and intensity, constituting one of the determinants of the poor quality of life of these patients. This research is aimed at analysis on the use of inhalotherapy, implemented by respiratory therapy students, physiotherapist, and medicine and nursing who take the last semester of a University Institution in the city of Cali. The proposed research was conducted through a descriptive cross-sectional design, where knowledge of inhalotherapy by the study population was established at a specific point in time. The population under study was made up of students from the medical programs, Respiratory therapy, Nursing and Physiotherapy of the last semesters, 18 years of age enrolled in the 2020 A academic period. Within the results was found the participation of students in the academic respiratory therapy program with 72%, Nursing with 18%, Physiotherapy with 7% and finally Medicine 3%, the type of inhaler students knows most is the 97% metered dose inhaler and only 29.2% of the population have perfect handling of inhalers. In conclusion, it was evident that there is knowledge about some aspects that may be satisfactory but that it should be necessary to include them in the academic training processes of future health professionals, so that patients can benefit from these acquired skills.