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Dermatology
Occupational Dermatoses
Built from Dermatology, 5th Edition
What’s inside
8 sections · 95 slides
Overview
What counts as an occupational skin disease, and how common it is
- What makes a skin disease occupational
- Four types of occupational hazard
- History of occupational skin disease
- How common occupational skin disease is
- Reporting differs by medical specialty
- Trends over the past decade
- Clinical classification of occupational dermatoses
Contact Dermatitis
Irritant and allergic reactions - the most common occupational skin disease
- Contact dermatitis: key features
- Early descriptions of contact dermatitis
- Who gets contact dermatitis, and where
- Materials that cause UK contact dermatitis
- Highest-risk UK occupations for contact dermatitis
- How chronic irritant dermatitis develops
- Clinical appearance and spread
- Clues that point to an occupational cause
- Points to consider when taking an occupational history
- Personal protective equipment and dermatitis
- Allergic contact dermatitis: diagnosis
- Suggested concentrations for patch testing selected work materials
- Suggested concentrations for patch testing selected work materials (continued)
- Testing notes and top allergic causes
- Irritant contact dermatitis: causes
- Irritant vs allergic contact dermatitis
- Chemical burns: mechanism and warning signs
- Strong acids
- Strong alkalis
- Organic/inorganic chemicals, solvents and gases
- Fiberglass dermatitis
- Phototoxic eruptions and tar/pitch smarts
- Mechanical injury to the skin
- Mimics of occupational contact dermatitis
- Hierarchy of occupational disease prevention
- Preventing dermatitis: pre-employment and workplace measures
- Guidelines aimed at preventing contact dermatitis
- Treating chemical burns
- Prognosis of occupational contact dermatitis
Contact Urticaria
Wheal-and-flare reactions, latex allergy, and protein contact dermatitis
- Contact urticaria: key features
- Recognition and occupational groups at risk
- Occupational patterns of contact urticaria
- Occupations at highest relative risk
- Two mechanisms behind contact urticaria
- What contact urticaria looks and feels like
- Food-related contact urticaria
- Potential cross-reactions between causes of contact urticaria
- Latex: source and who is affected
- How manufacturing changes latex risk
- Latex-fruit cross-reactivity and household sources
- Avoiding latex and managing severe reactions
- Diagnosing suspected latex allergy
- Prick testing for latex allergy
- Low-molecular-weight chemical causes
- Protein contact dermatitis
- Confirming contact urticaria
- Other causes of glove reactions
- Managing contact urticaria
Occupational Skin Cancer
UV, ionizing radiation, and chemical carcinogens at work
- Occupational skin cancer: key features
- Early recognition of occupational cancer
- How common, and who is exposed
- High-risk occupational groups
- How occupational cancers develop
- Clinical clues before cancer develops
- Pathology and treatment
Occupational Acne
Oil acne, acne mechanica, and chloracne from dioxin exposure
- Occupational acne: key features
- Chloracne: landmark events
- Communities exposed to dioxin
- How oil acne and chloracne develop
- Blood dioxin levels and chloracne
- Oil acne, tar acne, and acne mechanica
- Acne cosmetica
- How chloracne progresses
- Chloracne: distinguishing features
- Systemic signs that go with chloracne
- Halogen-induced acne
- Pathology and treatment of occupational acne
Vibration White Finger
Cold-triggered finger blanching in operators of vibrating tools
- Vibration white finger: key features
- First descriptions and scale of the problem
- Exposure trends and climate
- What causes the finger changes
- Timing and staging of symptoms
- More on how attacks present
- Confirming the diagnosis
- Distinguishing it from other cold-related conditions
- Outlook and treatment
Occupational Infections
Skin infections acquired from animals, humans, and the work environment
- Sources of occupational skin infection
- Humidity, occlusion, and everyday infections
- Occupational infections acquired from animals or humans with cutaneous manifestations
- Occupational infections acquired from animals or humans with cutaneous manifestations (continued)
- Occupational infections acquired from animals or humans with cutaneous manifestations (continued)
Summary
Putting the occupational dermatoses together
- Key takeaways
- References
- References (continued)
- References (continued)
- References (continued)
- References (continued)
- Dermatology, 5th Edition (2-Volume Set)