Oasys and Occupational Asthma

This website contains information on Occupational Asthma and a free multi award winning computer program called OASYS, which is used to help diagnose Occupational Asthma from serial peak flow records. Oasys shows further information and downloads for the Oasys program. References is a searchable database of more than 5000 published papers in the field of occupational asthma. Causes shows some of the causes of occupational asthma. The Shield scheme reports some statistics for occupational asthma, mainly in the West midlands region, UK. BOHRF shows the evidence based occupational asthma guidelines for the UK. The interactive Case Histories are a learning resource for interested health professionals. There are also Medics, Specialists, Employers and Worker sections.

Latest News

			Occupational asthma course	18 08 2023
			Oasys server issue	12 06 2023
			Stopping sprayed cleaners improves asthma	01 04 2023
			Bakers asthma and rhinitis still occuring with exposure levels <1mg,m3	08 01 2023
			Metalworking fluid HP with no mycobacteria	08 01 2023

Latest Publications

	Ganseman E, Goossens J, Blanter M, Jonckheere A-C, Bergmans N, Vanbrabant L, Gouwy M, Ronsmans S, Vandenbroeck S, Dupont LJ, Vanoirbeek J, Bullens DMA, Breynaert, C, Proost P, Schrijvers RN , Frequent allergic sensitization to farmed edible insects in exposed employees, he Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 2023;:,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2023.07.039 Y2 - 2023/08/10 ER

	Singh A, Zeig-Owens R, Cannon M, Webber MP, Goldfarb DG, Daniels RD, Prezant DJ, Boffetta P, Hall CB, All-cause and cause-specific mortality in a cohort of WTC-exposed and non-WTC-exposed firefighters., Occup Environ Med, 2023;:,https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2022-108703

	Pacheco Da Silva E, Ngutuka M, Dumas O, Orsi L, Ait-hadad W, Lemire P, Quentin J, Pin I, Varraso R, Siroux V, LeMoual N, Longitudinal associations of household use of cleaning agents and asthma symptoms in women: the EGEA study, Occup Environ Med, 2023;80:218-224,http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2022-108513

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The Website

This website is run by the Oasys research group, part of the Midland Thoracic Society, UK. We are an independent group of clinicians and researchers, and run a clinical service for workers with occupational lung disease as part of the British National Health Service. We have developed the Oasys program to help ourselves and others in the diagnosis of occupational asthma. We have no specific funding, relying on research grants and the enthusiasm of our group. The website is written by Cedd Burge, who receives some funding from the group. The group meets every Friday evening after the occupational lung disease clinic, as shown below.

As a casual user of this site (without logging in or registering) you can view all the information and use all the contact pages. Registered and logged in users (registering is free and we won't abuse your email) can download and use the Oasys program, ask and reply to questions in the forums, leave comments, add new references, add abstracts and full text links to existing references, answer questions in the case histories and provide evidence and suggest questions for future evidence based guidelines.

If you would like to be added to the list of known authors or collaborators then please register with the website (if you have not already done so) and then get in touch from the contact page. Once we have set the page up you will be able to edit it yourself and indicate which references you have written. Your picture will then be displayed along with each of these references. If you are already in these lists and would like to edit your page then please register with the website and then get in touch from the contact page.

Funding

Recent research grants / contracts have been received from the following.

• The National Institue for Occupational Safety and Health (US)
• The Health and Safety Executive (UK)
• CEFIC (Europe)
• The Colt Foundation (UK)

The Oasys Team

	Anees, Wasif	(Oasys)
	Belcher, John	(Oasys)
	Bright, Phil	(Oasys)
	Burge, Cedd	(Oasys)
	Burge, Geraldine	(Birmingham Heartlands Hospital)
	Burge, Sherwood	(Oasys)
	Catton, Celia	(Oasys)
	Drought, Vicki	(Oasys)
	Evans, Angela	(ARTP)
	Gannon, Paul	(Dupont)
	Hendy, Mike	(Oasys)
	Huntley, Chris	(University Hospitals Birmingham)
	Jackson, John	(Jackson Hocking Limited, UK)
	Manney, Sarah	(Birmingham Heartlands Hospital)
	McCoach (now Croft), Jennifer	(Oasys)
	McGrath, Emmet	(Oasys)
	Miedinger, David	(Lucern, Basel and Montreal)
	Moore, Vicky	(Oasys)
	Newton, Darren	(Oasys)
	Pantin, Charles	(Keele, UK)
	Parkes, Edward	(Birmingham Heartlands Hospital)
	Robertson, Alastair	(Selly Oak Hospital)
	Vellore, Arun Dev	(Oasys)
	Walters, Gareth	(Heartlands)
	Weir, David	(North Manchester Hospital)

Collaborators

	Money, Annemarie	(Manchester University)
	Maestrelli, Piero	(Padova University, Italy)
	Nowak, Dennis	(Institute fur Arbeits, Munich)
	Beach, Jeremy	(University of Alberta)
	Radon, Katja	(Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich)
	Antó, Josep	(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
	Carder, Melanie	(COEH Manchester)
	Feary, Jo	(Royal Brompton Hospital)
	Wiggans, Ruth	(Manchester University)
	Nemery, Ben	(Leuven, Belgium)

Known Authors

	Prezant, David	(Albert Einstein College, New York)
	Dumas, Orianne	(Villejuif, France)
	Preisser, Alexandra	(Hamburg)
	Merget, Rolf	(Bochum)
	Cherry, Nicola	(University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
	Munoz, Xavier	(Barcelona)
	Cruz, Maria Jesus	(Barcelona)
	de Sadeleer, Laurens	(University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven B-3000, Belgium)
	van Tongeren, Martie	(Manchester University)
	Seed, Martin	(Manchester University)