Asthma can be caused and aggravated by occupational factors in working adults. Agents that are responsible for occupational asthma are either sensitizers or irritants. Prevention is important to reduce the impact of the disease. This new edition of Asthma in the Workplace focuses on recent developments that are reflected by an impressive addition to the scientific literature. This fifth edition retains key elements that have made the success of previous editions: worldwide contributors, variety of topics covered, presentation of key aspects using workplace scenarios and case histories. This new comprehensive edition is intended to be of interest for health professionals, researchers, students, practitioners and various professionals involved in the assessment and management of workers exposed to occupational factors that may cause or exacerbate asthma.
Key Features
- Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of work-related asthma, including historical aspects, epidemiology and risk factors, mechanisms and genetics, other types of work-related asthma conditions and variants, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, occupational urticaria and dermatitis
- Assessment of the worker and workplace along with management of the worker, prevention and medicolegal aspects
- Detailed information about specific agents, including a variety of high-molecular-weight and low-molecular-weight agents
Author(s): Susan M. Tarlo, Olivier Vandenplas, David I. Bernstein, Jean-Luc Malo
Edition: 5
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 376
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
Preface
Editors
Contributors
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Definition and Classification of Asthma in the Workplace
2. Historical Aspects of Occupational Asthma
3. Disease Occurrence and Risk Factors
4. Mechanisms, Genetics, and Pathophysiology
PART II: ASSESSMENT
5. Assessment of the Worker
6. Assessment of the Workplace
7. Immunological and Inflammatory Assessments
8. Functional Assessment
PART III: MANAGEMENT
9. Management of the Worker
10. Prevention
11A. Impairment and Disability Evaluations
11B. Impairment and Disability Evaluations
PART IV: SPECIFIC AGENTS CAUSING IMMUNOLOGICAL OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA
12. Occupational Asthma in the Baking Industry
13. Asthma and Allergy to Animals, Fish, and Shellfish
14. Polyisocyanates and Their Prepolymers
15. Western Red Cedar and Other Wood Dusts
16. Metals
17. Cleaning Agents
18. Various High- and Low-Molecular-Weight Agents
PART V: SPECIFIC DISEASE ENTITIES AND VARIANTS
19. Irritant-Induced Asthma and Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome
20. Asthma Exacerbated at Work
21. Eosinophilic Bronchitis
22. Occupational Rhinitis
23. Airway Diseases Due to Organic Dust Exposure
24. Occupational Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Organic Dust Toxic Syndrome
25. Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease Due to Occupational Exposure
26. Building-Related Illnesses and Mold-Related Conditions
27. Occupational Urticaria and Allergic Contact Dermatitis
Index
