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Asthma in the Workplace 5th edition [Mīkstie vāki]

Edited by (Université de Montréal, Canada), Edited by (University of Toronto, Canada), Edited by (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Edited by (University of Cincinnati, USA)
  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 356 pages, height x width: 280x210 mm, weight: 453 g, 94 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, color; 28 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, color; 7 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, color; 35 Illustrations, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 13-Sep-2021
  • Izdevniecība: CRC Press
  • ISBN-10: 1032043423
  • ISBN-13: 9781032043425
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 356 pages, height x width: 280x210 mm, weight: 453 g, 94 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, color; 28 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, color; 7 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, color; 35 Illustrations, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 13-Sep-2021
  • Izdevniecība: CRC Press
  • ISBN-10: 1032043423
  • ISBN-13: 9781032043425
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Keywords:

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: world-wide 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

  • Of interest not only to pulmonologists, but also for industrial hygienists, researchers, lawyers and other health professionals in the field of work-related conditions

    • Detailed information about specific agents, including a variety of high- and low-molecular weight agents



    • This new edition 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: world-wide contributors, variety of topics covered, presentation of key aspects using workplace scenarios and case histories.

    Table of Contents

    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: I. Psychosocial, economic, and medicolegal aspects

    11B. Impairment and disability evaluation: II. Various legislations

    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

    Susan M. Tarlo, Professor of Medicine, University Health Network and St Michaels Hospital, Toronto; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Olivier Vandenplas, Professor of Medicine, Head Department of Chest Medicine, Centre hospitalier Universitaire UCL Namur, Université Catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium

    David I. Bernstein, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Division of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Jean-Luc Malo, Professor of Medicine (retired), Hōpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal and Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada