Health Care Workers and Asthma: ‘Occupational Asthma’ Is a Risk for Nurses

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• Personal Author:
  Filios, Margaret S. ; Pechter E
• Description:
  Asthma can develop at any time during a person's life, even without a history of allergies or asthma; at least 15% of adult asthma cases may be work-related, according to the American Thoracic Society. But nurses and other health care workers don't expect to get sick from work and often don't make the connection between their work and their symptoms - nor do their primary care providers. Asthma among health care workers has not been well recognized, with the exception of latex-associated asthma. Nonetheless, occupational asthma should be suspected whenever a working adult is diagnosed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Asthma Asthma, Occupational Health Personnel Hypersensitivity Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Safety Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Bronchial-asthma Cleaning-compounds Diseases Health-care Health-care-personnel Occupational-diseases Occupational-health Sensitization Surveillance-programs Synthetics Ventilation-systems Worker-health Workers

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• ISSN:
  0002-936X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  96
• Volume:
  106
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030040
• Citation:
  Am J Nurs 2006 Apr; 106(4):96
• Contact Point Address:
  M. S. Filios, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, Surveillance Branch, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505
• CAS Registry Number:
  Formaldehyde (CAS RN 50-00-0) ; Glutaraldehyde (CAS RN 111-30-8)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  The American Journal of Nursing
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190895/cdc_190895_DS1.pdf
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