Edited by Johanna Feary, Hille Suojalehto and Paul Cullinan
This Monograph provides the general respiratory physician with a working reference based on the latest literature and expert opinion. The initial chapter provides a contemporaneous global perspective of the epidemiology of occupational and environmental lung diseases in an ever-evolving landscape. The book then goes on to consider specific occupational lung diseases. Each chapters has a clear clinical focus and considers: key questions to ask in the history; appropriate investigations to undertake; differential diagnoses; and management. Controversies or diagnostic conundrums encountered in the clinic are also considered, and further chapters are more broadly centred on the non-workplace environment; specifically, the respiratory symptoms and diseases associated with both the outdoor and indoor environments.
Contents list
1. The global perspective of occupational lung disease
2. Exposure assessment
3. Sensitiser-induced occupational asthma
4. Work-exacerbated asthma
5. Acute inhalation injury
6. The impact on the aetiology of COPD, bronchitis and bronchiolitis
7. Occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis
8. Asbestosis
9. Non-malignant pleural disease from asbestos and malignant pleural mesothelioma
10. Silicosis and other silica-related lung disorders
11. Coal mine dust lung disease
12. Pneumoconiosis and interstitial lung diseases caused by inorganic dusts
13. Cotton, other bioaerosols, inhalation fevers and occupational organising pneumonia
14. Granulomatous and allied disorders
15. Interstitial lung disease in welders
16. Lung cancer and occupation
17. Diving
18. Working at high altitude
19. Outdoor environment
20. Indoor environment
ISBN 978-1-84984-124-5
