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Asthma in the Workplace Susan M. Tarlo (University of Toronto, Canada)

Asthma in the Workplace By Susan M. Tarlo (University of Toronto, Canada)

Asthma in the Workplace by Susan M. Tarlo (University of Toronto, Canada)

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Summary

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.

Asthma in the Workplace Summary

Asthma in the Workplace by Susan M. Tarlo (University of Toronto, Canada)

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

About Susan M. Tarlo (University of Toronto, Canada)

Susan M. Tarlo, Professor of Medicine, University Health Network and St Michael's 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, Universite 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), Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal and Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NLS9781032043425
9781032043425
1032043423
Asthma in the Workplace by Susan M. Tarlo (University of Toronto, Canada)
Susan M. Tarlo (University of Toronto, Canada)
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-09-13
356
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