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| What department deals with the research/training associated with work place rules? |
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| National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) |
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| What department in the US government is responsible for developing and enforcing workplace rules? |
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| What are the two categories of coal workers pneumoconiosis? |
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| What occupational lung disease presents with small 1-2 mm macules scattered throughout the bronchiolar walls of the lung? |
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| simple coal workers pneumoconiosis |
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| What is the pattern of lung disease in complex coal workers pneumooconiosis? |
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| massive fibrosis with bilateral masses |
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| Which form of coal workers pneumoconiosis is worse? |
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| What did the black lung legislation do? (3) |
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Definition
| a bill to make mandatory xray screenings of coal workers, money for those that are disabled, monitoring of the work sites |
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| What chemical is the lightest stable solid, is very strong, has a high melting point, and is very brittle? |
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| What type of beryllium is mined for gems? |
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| What other interstitial lung disease does chronic beryllium disesae resemble as far as pathalogical findings? |
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| What are the lung findings in chronic beryllium disease? (2) |
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| diffuse reticulonodular infiltrates w/ hilar adenopathy |
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| What occupational disesae presents with a very long latency of about 30 years? |
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| Chronic Beryllium Disease |
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| What occupational lung disease has genetic suseptability? |
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| chronic beryllium disease |
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What protein is defected in chronic beryllium disesae?
What is the protein responsible for?
Where is the protein located? |
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Be LPT
HLA-DP uptake by Antigen presenting cells
Blood and lung |
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Term
| What is the name of the hypersensitive pneumonitis that is due to thermophilic actinomyces? |
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Farmer's Lung
from moldy hay |
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| What are two new common sources of hypersenstiivity pneumonitis? |
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What are the three different classifications of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?
What are the notable pathological changes seen in each? |
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acute, subacute, chronic
acute: patchy airspaces
Subacute: Nodular
Chronic: Ground glass fibroses |
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| What classification of hypersenstivity pneumonitis are patchy air spaces found in? |
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| What is the source of the hypersenstivity pneumonitis that occurs from mycobacterium avium? |
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| What is the name of the chemical responsible for Popcorn Worker's Lung? |
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Definition
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| What type of lung disesae is popcorn worker's lung? |
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Definition
| bronchiolitis not an interstitial disesae |
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| Which of the occupational lung disesaes is not an interstitial lung disease and is a bronchiolitis? |
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| What is a low molecular weight occupational compound that can lead to Occupational Asthma? |
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| What does disocyanate react with in the body? |
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| Can all forms of occupational asthma caused by disocyanate be resolved? |
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