Oasys and Occupational Asthma

This website contains information on Occupational Asthma and a free multi award winning computer program called OASYS, which is used to help diagnose Occupational Asthma from serial peak flow records. Oasys shows further information and downloads for the Oasys program. References is a searchable database of more than 4,500 published papers in the field of occupational asthma. Causes shows some of the causes of occupational asthma. The Shield scheme reports some statistics for occupational asthma, mainly in the West midlands region, UK. BOHRF shows the evidence based occupational asthma guidelines for the UK. The interactive Case Histories are a learning resource for interested health professionals. There are also Medics, Specialists, Employers and Worker sections.

Latest News

			Usual exposure to irritants causes occupational asthma with latency indistinguishable from sensitisation-induced OA	23 12 2011
			Removal from exposure still better than exposure reduction	31 10 2011
			A positive challenge to MDF at last	19 09 2011
			Work-exacerbated asthma. ATS statement	25 08 2011
			Smoking inhibits the increase in non-specific reactivity following challenge	27 07 2011

This website is run by the Oasys research group, part of the Midland Thoracic Society, UK. We are an independent group of clinicians and researchers, and run a clinical service for workers with occupational lung disease as part of the British National Health Service. We have developed the Oasys program to help ourselves and others in the diagnosis of occupational asthma. We have no specific funding, relying on research grants and the enthusiasm of our group. The website is written by Cedd Burge, who receives some funding from the group. The group meets about every 6 weeks on a Wednesday evening, as shown below.

As a casual user of this site (without logging in or registering) you can view all the information and use all the contact pages. Registered and logged in users (registering is free and we won't abuse your email) can download and use the Oasys program, ask and reply to questions in the forums, leave comments, add new references, add abstracts and full text links to existing references, answer questions in the case histories and provide evidence and suggest questions for future evidence based guidelines.

If you would like to be added to the list of known authors or collaborators then please register with the website (if you have not already done so) and then get in touch from the contact page. Once we have set the page up you will be able to edit it yourself and indicate which references you have written. Your picture will then be displayed along with each of these references. If you are already in these lists and would like to edit your page then please register with the website and then get in touch from the contact page.

Funding

Recent research grants / contracts have been received from the following.

• The National Institue for Occupational Safety and Health (US)
• The Health and Safety Executive (UK)
• CEFIC (Europe)
• The Colt Foundation (UK)

The Oasys Team

	Anees, Wasif	(Oasys)
	Belcher, John	(Oasys)
	Bright, Phil	(Oasys)
	Burge, Cedd	(Oasys)
	Burge, Sherwood	(Oasys)
	Catton, Celia	(Oasys)
	Drought, Vicki	(Oasys)
	Evans, Angela	(ARTP)
	Gannon, Paul	(Dupont)
	Jackson, John	(Jackson Hocking Limited, UK)
	Manney, Sarah	(Birmingham Heartlands Hospital)
	McCoach (now Croft), Jennifer	(Oasys)
	McGrath, Emmet	(Oasys)
	Moore, Vicky	(Oasys)
	Newton, Darren	(Oasys)
	Pantin, Charles	(Keele, UK)
	Robertson, Alastair	(Selly Oak Hospital)
	Vellore, Arun Dev	(Oasys)

Collaborators

	Jaakkola, Maritta	(Oulu University Finland)
	Malo, Jean-Luc	(Hôpital de Sacré Coeur, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
	Moscato, Giana	(Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia)
	Vandenplas, Olivier	(Universite Mont-Goginne, Yvoir)
	Beach, Jeremy	(University of Alberta)
	Antó, Josep	(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
	Zock, Jan-Paul	(Municipal Institute of Medical Research, Barcelona, Spain)
	Kongerud, Johny	(Rikshospitalet, Oslo University, Norway)
	Baur, Xaver	(Institute of occupational medicine, Hamburg)
	Maestrelli, Piero	(Padova University, Italy)

Known Authors

	Gautrin, Denise	(Hôpital de Sacré Coeur, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
	Folletti, Ilenia	(Perugia)
	Perfetti, Luca	(Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia)
	Quirce, Santiago	(Madrid)
	Siracusa, Andrea	(Perugia)
	Walusiak, Jolanta	(Lodz)
	Tarlo, Susan	(Toronto)
	Ramazzini, Bernardino	(Universities of Moderna and Padua)
	Ghezzo, Heberto	(Montreal)
	van Rooy, Frits	(Utrecht University)