ERS School Course on Occupational Asthma, Leuven 2006

ERS School Course on Occupational Asthma, Leuven 2006

General introduction: history, epidemiology, nosology

P. Cullinan (London, United Kingdom)

How to take an occupational history

P. S. Burge (Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Diagnostic approaches in occupational asthma

B. Nemery (Leuven, Belgium)

Resources in occupational asthma, incl. the Internet

D. Nowak (Munich, Germany)

Pulmonary function tests, including nonspecific provocation testing

B. Nemery (Leuven, Belgium), F. Rochette (Leuven, Belgium)

Sequential peak-flow measurements

P. S. Burge (Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Specific provocation challenges

O. Vandenplas (Yvoir, Belgium)

Sputum induction

P. Paggiaro (Pisa, Italy)

Skin prick testing and RASTs

T. Sigsgaard (Aarhus, Denmark)

Allergic occupational asthma (macromolecular agents)

J. Sastre (Madrid, Spain)

Allergic occupational asthma (low molecular weight agents)

P. Paggiaro (Pisa, Italy)

Irritant-induced asthma, including RADS

B. Nemery (Leuven, Belgium)

Asthma-like disorders in agro-industrial jobs

T. Sigsgaard (Aarhus, Denmark)

Measurements and analysis of dusts, vapours, gases

H. Veulemans (Leuven, Belgium)

Measurements of fungal contamination

T. Sigsgaard (Aarhus, Denmark)

Personal protective equipment (masks)

Belgian Company

How to write a report for a compensation board

F. De Blay (Strasbourg Cedex, France)

How to do a survey

D. Heederik (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Pre-employment evaluation and surveillance

P. Cullinan (London, United Kingdom)

Clinical management of occupational asthma

P. S. Burge (Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Prevention and individual respiratory protection

T. Sigsgaard (Aarhus, Denmark)

Compensation of occupational asthma

O. Vandenplas (Yvoir, Belgium)