Recommendations for performing specific inhalation challenge tests: Polish experience in relation to the European Respiratory Society guideliness

A diagnosis of occupational diseases implicates some medical and legal consequences; therefore, the most specific and objective methods are needed in the diagnostic process. Specific inhalation challenge (SIC) tests currently play an irreplaceable role in diagnosing allergic airway diseases (e.g., allergic rhinitis, asthma) as well as allergic conjunctivitis and systemic reactions, also the occupational ones. In 2014, a team of the European Respiratory Society experts published a statement that provides practical recommendations for performing SIC tests in diagnosing occupational asthma. In the current publication, the authors discuss the European guidelines in the context of Polish experience of the reference center – the Department of Occupational Diseases and Environmental Health, the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódź. The article describes the procedures and diagnostic criteria employed during SIC tests in diagnosing occupational asthma. Med Pr. 2020;71(3):381–97.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:71

Enthalten in:

Medycyna Pracy - 71(2020), 3, Seite 381-397

Sprache:

Englisch ; Polnisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jolanta Walusiak-Skorupa [VerfasserIn]
Agnieszka Lipinska-Ojrzanowska [VerfasserIn]
Marta Wiszniewska [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Medical certification
Occupational allergy
Occupational asthma
Public aspects of medicine
Recommendations
Sic
Specific inhalation challenge tests

doi:

10.13075/mp.5893.00924

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DOAJ043911560