Advances in Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

1st Edition, Volume 41-4 - November 11, 2020
Editors: Carrie A. Redlich, Kristin J. Cummings, Peggy Lai
Language: English
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This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest-edited by Drs. Carrie A. Redlich, Kristin J. Cummings, and Peggy Lai, is focused on Advances in Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases. Topics discussed in this issue include but are not limited to: Master Clinician – selected occupational and environmental pulmonary cases; Chest imaging in the Diagnosis of Occupational Lung Diseases; Harnessing electronic medical records to enhance the diagnosis of work-related lung diseases; The impact of health disparities on lung disease; Respiratory health effects of exposure to cleaning products; Occupational upper airways disorders, including laryngeal dysfunction; Occupational bronchiolitis – including flavoring-related lung disease, deployment; Coal workers pneumoconiosis and other mining-related lung disease: the re-emergence of an old disease (including COPD in miners); Occupational contributions to ILD (including asbestos, overlap HP and ILD); Silicosis – Persistence of an old disease, old and new exposure settings and prevention; Occupational respiratory cancer: Chest CT screening; Occupational respiratory Infections: pneumonia, healthcare workers; Update on climate change: its impact on respiratory health at work, home, and at play; The changing nature of wildfires: update on the respiratory health of first responders and communities; The microbiome and damp Indoor environments; The on-going impact of World Trade Center exposures on respiratory health; The impact of Electronic cigarettes and smoking cessation; The respiratory risks of ambient /outdoor air pollution; and Indoor air pollution and respiratory health.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Forthcoming Issues
Preface
Master Clinician and Public Health Practitioner: Selected Occupational and Environmental Pulmonary Cases
Key points
Introduction
Case 1
Case 2
Case 3
Case 4
Summary
Chest Imaging in the Diagnosis of Occupational Lung Diseases
Key points
Introduction
Choice of imaging modality
Standardized imaging classification systems for pneumoconioses
Classification of occupational lung diseases
Asbestos-related disease
Silicosis and coal workers’ pneumoconiosis
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Chronic beryllium disease
Hard metal lung disease
Aluminosis
Siderosis
Talcosis
Work-related asthma
Newer and emerging occupational lung diseases
Imaging malignancy in the setting of occupational lung diseases
Summary
Informatics Approaches for Recognition, Management, and Prevention of Occupational Respiratory Disease
Key points
Introduction
Patients and workers
Primary care and pulmonary clinicians
Specialist occupational clinicians
Clinical service systems managers
Public health practice
Clinicians and others assessing exposure
Researchers
Transformative approaches
Summary
Clinics care points
Health Disparities in Environmental and Occupational Lung Disease
Key points
Introduction
Age
Race
Sex
Socioeconomic status
Geographic disparities
Summary
Respiratory Health Effects of Exposure to Cleaning Products
Key points
Introduction: why is this an important public health issue?
Is there a global “asthma” epidemic among professional cleaners?
Is it really asthma?
What are cleaning products?
Production and respiratory uptake of cleaning-related gases and particles
Mechanisms of adverse respiratory effects
Future steps and conclusions
Work-Related Upper-Airway Disorders
Key points
Introduction
Work-related rhinitis and association with work-related asthma
Work-related laryngeal syndromes including laryngeal causes of cough
Summary
Occupational Bronchiolitis: An Update
Key points
Introduction
Flavorings
Southwestern Asia deployment
Emerging issues
Summary
Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis and Other Mining-Related Lung Disease: New Manifestations of Illness in an Age-Old Occupation
Key points
Introduction
Composition of the mine atmosphere
Epidemiology
Pathogenesis
Disease manifestations
Clinical features
Imaging
Lung function
Pathology
Diagnosis
Management
Prevention
Summary
Occupational Contributions to Interstitial Lung Disease
Key points
Importance
Occupational idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Asbestosis
Occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Uncommon and emerging occupational interstitial disorders
Silicosis: An Update and Guide for Clinicians
Key points
Introduction
The mineralogy of crystalline and amorphous silica and silicates
Silicosis, an ancient disease with emerging importance
Epidemiology of silicosis in the twenty-first century
Nonoccupational settings where respirable crystalline silica exposure can occur
Classification and clinical presentation of silicosis and associated diseases
Other diseases associated with silica exposure
Silicosis prevention and sentinel case management
Clinics care points
Screening for Occupational Lung Cancer: An Unprecedented Opportunity
Key points
Introduction
Occupational causes of lung cancer
How important is occupational lung cancer?
Exposure to occupational lung carcinogens
Cigarette smoking, chronic lung diseases, and occupational lung cancer
Screening for lung cancer
Recommendations: lung cancer screening of occupational populations
Important questions that may arise in clinical pulmonary practice
Clinics Care Points
Occupational Respiratory Infections
Key points
Introduction
Tuberculosis
Influenza
Coccidioidomycosis
Psittacosis
A reemerging occupational respiratory infection
An emerging occupational respiratory infection
Summary
Update on Climate Change: Its Impact on Respiratory Health at Work, Home, and at Play
Key points
How is climate change relevant to pulmonary medicine?
My patient lives in an area with significant pollution. How does climate change affect air quality?
How does climate change affect the respiratory health of people at work?
Are children vulnerable to climate change?
How do storms and other extreme weather events affect my patient with chronic lung disease?
How should I counsel my patients to best prevent or adapt to the anticipated respiratory effects of climate change?
Summary
Working in Smoke:: Wildfire Impacts on the Health of Firefighters and Outdoor Workers and Mitigation Strategies
Key points
Introduction
Exposures faced by wildland firefighters
Health risks for wildland firefighters
Potential solutions for reducing smoke exposure for wildland firefighters
Outdoor workers
Summary
Clinics care points
The Changing Nature of Wildfires: Impacts on the Health of the Public
Key points
Introduction
Community exposures and health effects from wildfire smoke
Summary
Indoor Microbial Exposures and Chronic Lung Disease: From Microbial Toxins to the Microbiome
Key points
Introduction
Search strategy
Ways to measure microbes
Lung diseases
Effects of bacterial exposures on asthma
Effects of fungal exposure on asthma
The microbiome and chronic obstructive lung disease
Summary
Electronic Cigarettes: Past, Present, and Future: What Clinicians Need to Know
Key points
Introduction: what are electronic cigarettes and vaping?
Why are electronic cigarettes controversial? The dilemma of youth use and adult harm reduction
Big Vapes? A brief history of electronic cigarettes
Are electronic cigarettes addictive?
Are electronic cigarettes toxic and do they have health effects?
Electronic cigarette, or vaping, product use–associated lung injury
Do electronic cigarettes promote smoking cessation?
Electronic cigarettes in the clinical setting: how to evaluate and counsel patients
What else needs to be learned about electronic cigarettes?
What is the future of electronic cigarettes?
The Respiratory Risks of Ambient/Outdoor Air Pollution
Key points
Introduction
Air pollutants
Health effects
Ambient pollution and respiratory disease
How clinicians can approach pollution and respiratory health
Summary
Clinics Care Points
Indoor Air Pollution and Respiratory Health
Key points
Introduction: why indoor air pollution is important
Indoor air pollution in low-middle income countries
Indoor air pollution in high-income countries
Sources of indoor air pollution
Consequence of indoor air pollution
Strategies for reducing household air pollution
Future areas for study
Summary
Clinics care points

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