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New European Guidelines for Occupational Asthma

 New European Guidelines for Occupational Asthma

These new evidence-based guidelines made the following general recommendations
1) A comprehensive diagnostic approach considering the individual specific aspects is recommended.
2) Early recognition and diagnosis is necessary for timely and appropriate preventative measures.
3) A stratified medical screening strategy and surveillance programme should be applied to at-risk workers. This is a new recommendation compared with previous reviews and also recommends regular skin prick tests or specific IgE for biological agent exposed workers.   4) Whenever possible,removing exposure to the causative agent should be achieved, as it leads to the best health outcome. If this is not possible, reduction is the second best option, whereas respirators are of limited value.
5) Exposure elimination should be the preferred primary prevention approach.

References

Full Text Available for Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma Baur X, Sigsgaard T, Aasen TB, Burge PS, Heederik D, Henneberger P, Maestrelli P, Rooyackers J, Schlunssen V, Vandenplas O, Wilken D on behalf of the ERS Task Force on the Management of Work-related Asthma, Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma, Eur Respir J, 2012;39:529-545,
Paul Henneberger, NIOSH, Morgantown, USA, an author of 'Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma' Olivier Vandenplas, Universite Mont-Goginne, Yvoir, an author of 'Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma' Sherwood Burge, Oasys, an author of 'Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma' Dick Heederik, Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht, an author of 'Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma' Torben Sigsgaard, University of Aarhus, an author of 'Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma' Tor Aasen, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, an author of 'Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma' Xaver Baur, Institute of occupational medicine, Hamburg, an author of 'Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma' Piero Maestrelli, Padova University, Italy, an author of 'Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma' Vivi Schlunssen, Aarhus, an author of 'Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma'

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