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Occupational Medicine

 
 
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Disease relevance of Occupational Medicine

 

High impact information on Occupational Medicine

  • Sounding board. Medicine re-enters the workplace: a new era in occupational medicine [6]?
  • Once a conspicuous, severe, and even frequent clinical type of plumbism, peripheral lead neuropathy has received due attention in the early classics (Tanquerel des Plances, Duchenne, Aran, Remak, Romberg, Erb, etc.) and of the pioneers in industrial medicine (Legge, Aub, Teleky, Hamilton) [7].
  • Styrene is one of the chemicals for which biological monitoring programs have been validated and implemented in environmental and occupational medicine [8].
  • The panel discussion from the perspective of occupational medicine regarding appropriate medical surveillance after a PCB transformer or capacitor incident is reviewed [9].
  • This instrument is intended to provide a standardized efficient, cost-effective method for widespread use in occupational medicine and public health to detect and track subclinical neurotoxic effects and to prevent additional harmful exposure [10].
 

Biological context of Occupational Medicine

 

Anatomical context of Occupational Medicine

 

Associations of Occupational Medicine with chemical compounds

 

Gene context of Occupational Medicine

  • Samplers used in these studies included the closed-face 37 mm filter cassette (the current US standard method for lead sampling), the 37 mm GSP or "cone" sampler, the 25 mm Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) inhalable sampler, the 25 mm Button sampler, and the open-face 25 mm cassette [19].
  • In this case personal samples were taken at a manufacturer of solder alloys consisting mainly of lead and tin, using the closed-face 37 mm cassette (CFC), the 37 mm GSP or "cone" sampler, the 25 mm Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) inhalable sampler, the 25 mm button sampler, and the open-face 25 mm cassette [20].
  • Special advice to avoid the specific risks must be given to the crews and an examination by occupational medicine, e.g. according to "Working in cold environments, G21" of the German Berufsgenossenschaften, is recommended [21].
  • Screening for the onset of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), which is associated with excess ergonomic stresses of the wrist and hand, is a major concern in occupational medicine [22].
  • The screening consisted of a World Health Organization (WHO) questionnaire, a digital rectal examination (DRE) by an occupational medicine doctor, and a serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) study [23].

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