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. 0. 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 978-1849841245

ISBN 9781849841245