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Saturday, 04 July 2009
Occupational Lung Disease

The BTS report "The Burden of Lung Disease" highlights the increasing mortality rates due to occupational lung disease since the early 1990s.  Mesothelioma acounts for a large proportion of these cases and further information on this condition can be found here.

The BTS /SIGN Asthma guideline includes information on occupational asthma and this guideline is available here.

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Standards of Care for Occupational Asthma, published in Thorax March 2008 is available here and the editorial from the March issue of Thorax is available here.

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