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 March 14/15 2024 - booking now live!	18 08 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
			Office workers constitute 5% of those with confirmed occupational asthma	06 11 2022

Latest Publications

	Nadi B, Kalaca S, Francis H, Fletcher AM, Pickering CAC, Tumerdem N, Cali S, Oldham L, Natural History and Risk Factors of Early Respiratory Responses to Exposure to Cotton Dust in Newly Exposed Workers., J Occup Environ Med, 2007;49:853-861,http://www.jstor.org/stable/45009368

	Nafees AA, Allana A, Kadir MM, Potts J, Minelli C, Semple S, Matteis SD, Burney P, Cullinan P, A cluster randomised controlled trial to reduce respiratory effects of cotton dust exposure among textile workers – the MultiTex RCT study, Eur Respir J, 2023;:,DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01028-2023

	Fishwick D, Carder M, Iskandar I, Fishwick BC, van Tongeren M, Irritant asthma and work: cases from the UK SWORD reporting scheme from 1999 to 2018, Occup Environ Med, 2023;80:553-557,http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5941-090X

Latest Forum Questions

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

	Pickering, Tony	(Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK)
	Fletcher, Angela	(North West Lung Centre, Manchester)
	Cullinan, Paul	(Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK)
	Carder, Melanie	(COEH Manchester)
	Fishwick, David	(Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK)
	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)

Known Authors

	Burney, Peter	(Kings College, London)
	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)