Navigation Links
New consensus on work-related asthma
Date:9/23/2008

In a new consensus statement, the American College of Chest Physicians offers guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of work-related asthma (WRA), a chronic respiratory condition that includes occupational asthma and work-exacerbated asthma (WEA) and affects as many as 25 percent of adults with asthma. Published as a supplement to the September issue of CHEST, the consensus statement, updated from 1995, places new emphasis on

  1. preventive measures, including better control of exposures;
  2. the need for a combination of diagnostic testing; and
  3. the importance of obtaining a full medical and occupational history in patients with suspected WRA.

The statement also places greater consideration on the diagnosis and management of WEA, which is preexisting or concurrent asthma that is worsened by work-related conditions. Developed by an expert panel of specialists in allergy, pulmonary medicine, and occupational medicine, the consensus statement provides supplemental materials, including a worker/workplace fact sheet and physician flow sheets to help physicians and other health-care providers diagnose and manage WRA. For more information related to the ACCP consensus statement on work-related asthma, visit www.chestjournal.org.


'/>"/>

Contact: Jennifer Stawarz
jstawarz@chestnet.org
847-498-8306
American College of Chest Physicians
Source:Eurekalert

0

GOOD

Page: 1

Related biology technology :

1. Expert Consensus Panel Recommendation for Incorporating Lp-PLA2 Testing into Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment Guidelines
2. International Wound Care Experts, Medline Announce Pressure Ulcer Prevention Consensus Paper
3. Video: ASMANEX(R) TWISTHALER(R) 110 MCG (Mometasone Furoate Inhalation Powder) is Now Available Nationwide for the Maintenance Treatment of Asthma in Children Ages 4 to 11
4. New Patient Satisfaction Study With budesonide/formoterol Combination Therapy and fluticasone/salmeterol Combination Therapy in Adults With Asthma
5. Asthma Uncontrolled in More Than 40 Percent of Adults With the Disease, New Landmark Survey Shows
6. Asthma Patients Not Adequately Controlled on ICS Alone More Likely to Benefit From Advair(R) Than Doubling the Dose of ICS
7. Apieron, Inc. Announces FDA Clearance of the Insight(TM) eNO System to Assist Physicians with Patient Asthma Management
8. Allergy Standards LTD to Attend 2008 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Conference
9. FDA Grants Market Clearance to Aerocrine Inc.s NIOX MINO(R): a New Hand-Held Device to Measure Airway Inflammation in Asthma
10. Drug Reduces Airway Mucus in Preclinical Asthma Model
11. AIM-Quoted Verona Pharma Progresses Anti-Asthma Drug Studies

Post Your Comments:
*Name:
*Comment:
*Email:
(Date:11/24/2009)... 2009 Arena Pharmaceutic...the company is scheduled to present at the Piper J...ber 1, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time (8:30 a.m. ...York City. Jack Lief, Arena,s President and Chief ...view of the company, including its clinical develo...
(Date:11/24/2009)...vember 24 Health Robotics today an...nture with a group of selected,investors. This rec...der the,name Health Robotics Canada, Inc. and will.... Room of the Future concept, which includes the,r...v.SOFT(TM), and OMM(TM).,Health Robotics Canada In...
(Date:11/24/2009)...Abstracts Service (CAS), the global expert on chem...ce is now the world,s leading producer of patent i...Japan,s patent office, the World Intellectual Prop...tent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for more than a ..., and exceeded Japan for the first time on a month...
(Date:11/23/2009)...n a provocative new study, a University of Utah sc...s the major cause of global warming cannot be st...ociety builds the equivalent of one new nuclear po...here will be any substantial near-term departure f...de emission rates," says the new paper by Tim Garr...
Breaking Biology Technology:Arena Pharmaceuticals to Present at the Piper Jaffray 21st Annual Health Care Conference 2Arena Pharmaceuticals to Present at the Piper Jaffray 21st Annual Health Care Conference 3Health Robotics Continues its Global Expansion With December 09 ASHP's Launch of Joint Venture in Canada 2Health Robotics Continues its Global Expansion With December 09 ASHP's Launch of Joint Venture in Canada 3China Leads All Nations in Publication of Chemical Patents According to CAS, the World's Most Authoritative Publisher of Chemical Information 2China Leads All Nations in Publication of Chemical Patents According to CAS, the World's Most Authoritative Publisher of Chemical Information 3Is global warming unstoppable? 2Is global warming unstoppable? 3Is global warming unstoppable? 4
...fits for General Electric Co.,s GE Healthcare di...d an 8 percent growth in total orders, the company...ased parent of GE Healthcare Technologies in Wauke...cond quarter, up 7 percent compared with $3.3 bill... GE Healthcare rose to $589 million from $503 mill...
...up of private colleges and universities in Wiscons...ation technology platform using systems of Jenzab...y reported an agreement with the Wisconsin Associ... use a number of its systems. Those include the Je...olution and Jenzabar,s Learning Management System....
...part of a new National Science Foundation -funded...ing faculty, staff and students will work with som...nds-on exhibits about technology so small that eve... Museum of Science , Boston, the Science Museum ...sco, are leading the $20 million Nanoscale Informa...
Other Biology Technology:Engineers help turn science into interactive exhibits 2
(Date:11/24/2009)... Research Institute (LRI) today named 12 new grant...llion, recognize innovative work across a broad sp...eir creativity, novelty, and potential to drive sc...nd cure the complex disease of systemic lupus. , ...pus researchers across the nation and include inte...
(Date:11/24/2009)...at keep weakened and flabby arteries from collapsi...s, those stents are no longer needed -- once the a... Previously, doctors had no choice but to leave th...v University,s Department of Biomedical Engineerin...m that carries drugs where they,re needed, then di...
(Date:11/24/2009)... NEW YORK (November 24, 2009) -- The Wildlif...ort revealing that the last remaining population o...y due to the rising tide of poaching and habitat l... inform Russian officials of what needs to be done...iggest cat. , The report was releas...
Breaking Biology News(10 mins):Lupus Research Institute announces 2009 novel research grants 2Lupus Research Institute announces 2009 novel research grants 3A coating for life 2Report shows dramatic decline in Siberian tigers 2Tobira Therapeutics Inc Announces Key Addition to Scientific Advisory Board 12461 1Tobira Therapeutics Inc Announces Key Addition to Scientific Advisory Board 12461 2Dr Brian B Adams to Join the MISSION 47871 1Dr Brian B Adams to Join the MISSION 47871 2Dr Brian B Adams to Join the MISSION 47871 3Chicago area Infertility Specialist Richard Sherbahn MD Reports a Woman 26apos 3Bs Age Affects Her Chances of Successful Pregnancy from Egg Donation 47869 1Chicago area Infertility Specialist Richard Sherbahn MD Reports a Woman 26apos 3Bs Age Affects Her Chances of Successful Pregnancy from Egg Donation 47869 2Chicago area Infertility Specialist Richard Sherbahn MD Reports a Woman 26apos 3Bs Age Affects Her Chances of Successful Pregnancy from Egg Donation 47869 3Chicago area Infertility Specialist Richard Sherbahn MD Reports a Woman 26apos 3Bs Age Affects Her Chances of Successful Pregnancy from Egg Donation 47869 4
...Why is it that the origins of many serious disease... a scientist at the University of California, San ...d molecular view of the indivisible unit of life, ...ng findings from multiple disciplines, Jamey Marth...lecular Medicine and Investigator with the Howard ...
...President George W. Bush has named the recipients ...s highest honor for science and engineering. Honor...ony on Sept. 29, 2008. , "The 2007 National Medal... science with their superb research," said Arden L...undation (NSF). "Their legacies have impacted our ...
...Mexico City once topped lists of places with the w...to curb emissions have improved the situation, tin...w, atmospheric scientists from UC San Diego and si...that hangs over the city to precisely identify aer...ns of changes to the mix. , This forensic work wi...
Other Biology News:Do 68 molecules hold the key to understanding disease? 2White House announces 2007 National Medal of Science laureates 2Smoke smudges Mexico City's air, chemists identify sources 2Smoke smudges Mexico City's air, chemists identify sources 3
... was tested on rat tissue extracts (liver, kidney,...) extract. It was also tested with microsomal frac...plication: A simple and reliable method for measur...d on the detection of the inorganic phosphate rele...
...ve stress is the condition in which a lack of bala...ious antioxidants. Oxidative stress appears to be... including artherosclerosis, chronic inflammatory ...s several antioxidant systems that are very import...
FlowJo from Tree Star Inc
...ytic degradation is critical to the maintenance of...proteins as important and diverse as those involve...sponse, antigen presentation, modulation of cell s...lation, transcription, and signalling factors. The...
Biology Products: