Asthma in the workplace
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Asthma in the workplace
Marcel Dekker, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume discusses the clinical epidemiological and pathophysiological investigations of airways diseases - emphasizing the diagnosis, including immunological and physiological methods of evaluation, as well as detailing all known causative agents and the main workplace settings associated with occupational asthma.
Written by over 30 leading international authorities in the field, "Asthma in the Workplace": explores a stepwise diagnostic approach and the use of bronchoprovocation to evaluate individual workers; covers environmental sampling methods used to monitor the concentration of chemicals and proteins in the workplace; treats the medicolegal aspects, workers' compensation, assessment of disability, and surveillance of occupational asthma; presents specific disease entities that encompass a variety of high-molecular-weight antigens and chemical etiological agents, and considers irritant-induced asthma and asthma-like disorders; and lists the major chemical and protein inducers of occupational asthma, chief industries where these occur, and approximate number of documented cases in each category and describes the NIOSH information base and a French telematic information service on occupational asthma.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 General considerations: definition and classification of asthma, I. Leonard Bernstein, et al
- historical aspects of occupational asthma, J. Pepys
- epidemiology - prevalence and determinants, Margaret R. Becklake
- pathophysiology of occupational asthma, L.M. Fabbri, et al
- animal models of occupational asthma, David I. Bernstein
- clinical assessment and management of occupational asthma, David I. Bernstein
- immunologic evaluation of occupational asthma, Leslie C. Grammer and Roy Patterson
- population surveys of occupational asthma, Jean-Luc Malo and Moira Chan-Yeung
- physiologic assessment of occupational asthma, P. Sherwood Burge
- nonspecific bronchial hyperresponsiveness, Moira Chan-Yeung
- occupational challenge tests, Andre Cartier and Jean-Luc Malo
- environmental monitoring of protein aeroallergens, Charles E. Reed, et al
- environmental monitoring of chemical agents, Jacques Lesage and Guy Perrault
- natural history of occupational asthma, Moira Chan-Yeung and Jean-Luc Malo
- medicolegal and compensation aspects, Paul J. Seligman and I. Leonard Bernstein
- evaluation of impairment/disability in subjects with occupational asthma, Jean-Luc Malo and Moira Chan-Yeung
- surveillance and prevention, David I. Bernstein. Part 2 Specific disease entities: high molecular weight agents, David I. Bernstein and Jean-Luc Malo
- laboratory animal and insect allergy, A.J. Newman Taylor and S. Gordon
- polyisocyanates and their prepolymers, Brian T. Butcher
- acid anhydrides, C.R. Zeiss and Roy Patterson
- metals, I. Leonard Bernstein and Stuart A. Brooks
- other chemical substances causing occupational asthma, Jean-Luc Malo and I. Leonard Bernstein
- Western red cedar and other wood dusts, Moira Chan-Yeung
- reactive airways dysfunction syndrome or irritant-induced asthma, Stuart M. Brooks and I. Leonard Bernstein
- cotton and other textile dusts, James A. Merchant and I. Leonard Bernstein
- grain dust-induced lung disease, Moira Chan-Yeung, et al. Part 3 Compendiums: compendium I table of the major inducers of occupational asthma compendium II bibliographic data bases
- compendium III the United States national exposure survey (NOES) data base
- compendium IV the telematic information service (MINITEL) on occupational asthma in France.
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