Albuterol is a common rescue medication that people with COPD can use as an inhaler or nebulizer ... It comes in an aerosol inhaler and solution for nebulization. There’s no powder form of ...

Albuterol can be taken in several forms but it's the aerosolized solution used in a nebulizer in hospitals that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration put on its drug shortage list in late October.

For one box of a certain albuterol product used for a nebulizer, McKenna said he pays roughly $20. Due to various restrictions on pricing, he said he actually loses money on each sale.

Albuterol can be taken in several forms but it's the aerosolized solution used in a nebulizer in hospitals that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration put on its drug shortage list in late October.

The type of albuterol in short supply isn’t the kind used in personal inhalers but is a liquid solution often administered at hospitals using a nebulizer machine.