Main description:

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 chapter 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:

The global perspective of occupational lung disease; Exposure assessment; Sensitiser-induced occupational asthma; Work-exacerbated asthma; Acute inhalation injury; The impact on the aetiology of COPD, bronchitis and bronchiolitis; Occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Asbestosis; Non-malignant pleural disease from asbestos and malignant pleural mesothelioma; Silicosis and other silica-related lung disorders; Coal mine dust lung disease; Pneumoconiosis and interstitial lung diseases caused by inorganic dust; Cotton, other bioaerosols, inhalation fevers and occupational organising pneumonia; Granulomatous and allied disorders; Interstitial lung disease in welders; Lung cancer and occupation; Diving; Working at high altitude; Outdoor environment; Indoor environment