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 5000 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

			Occupational asthma course 2025	18 10 2024
			New Url for the Oasys Server	16 01 2024
			Occupational asthma course March 14/15 2024 - booking now live!	18 08 2023
			Stopping sprayed cleaners improves asthma	01 04 2023
			Bakers asthma and rhinitis still occuring with exposure levels <1mg,m3	08 01 2023

Latest Publications

	Wu BG, Kapoor B, Cummings KJ, Stanton ML, Nett RJ, Kreiss K, Abraham JL, Colby TV, Franko AD, Green FHY, Sanyal S, Clemente JC, Gao Z, Coffre M, Meyn P, Heguy A, Li Y, Sulaiman I, Borbet TC, Koralov SBKB, Tallaksen RJ, Wendland D, Bachelder VD, Boylstein RJ, Park J, Cox-Ganser JM, Virji MA, Crawford JA, Edwards NT, Veillette M, Duchaine C, Warren K, Lundeen S, Blaser MJBJ, and Segal LNSN, Evidence for Environmental–Human Microbiota Transfer at a Manufacturing Facility with Novel Work-related Respiratory Disease, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2020;202:1678–1688,https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202001-0197OC

	Hanon S, Rongé R, Potvin M, Schuermans D, Vincken W, Occupational asthma due to colophony in a violin player, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 2014;2:624-625,

	Aarhus L, Skare Ø, Nordby K-C, Gulsvik A, Vikjord S, Hedman L, Langhammer A, Occupation and 11-year lung function decline in the HUNT Study, Occup Med, 2024;74:676-683,https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqae115

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The Website

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 every Friday evening after the occupational lung disease clinic, 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, Geraldine	(Birmingham Heartlands Hospital)
	Burge, Sherwood	(Oasys)
	Catton, Celia	(Oasys)
	Drought, Vicki	(Oasys)
	Evans, Angela	(ARTP)
	Gannon, Paul	(Dupont)
	Hendy, Mike	(Oasys)
	Huntley, Chris	(University Hospitals Birmingham)
	Jackson, John	(Jackson Hocking Limited, UK)
	Manney, Sarah	(Birmingham Heartlands Hospital)
	McCoach (now Croft), Jennifer	(Oasys)
	McGrath, Emmet	(Oasys)
	Miedinger, David	(Lucern, Basel and Montreal)
	Moore, Vicky	(Oasys)
	Newton, Darren	(Oasys)
	Pantin, Charles	(Keele, UK)
	Parkes, Edward	(Birmingham Heartlands Hospital)
	Robertson, Alastair	(Selly Oak Hospital)
	Vellore, Arun Dev	(Oasys)
	Walters, Gareth	(Heartlands)
	Weir, David	(North Manchester Hospital)

Collaborators

	Kreiss, Kay	(NIOSH, Morgantown USA)
	Reynolds, Carl	(Royal Brompton Hospital)
	Feary, Jo	(Royal Brompton Hospital)
	Szram, Joanna	(Royal Brompton Hospital)
	Carder, Melanie	(COEH Manchester)
	Fishwick, David	(Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK)
	Baur, Xaver	(Institute of occupational medicine, Hamburg)
	Newman Taylor, Tony	(Royal Brompton Hospital, London)
	Antó, Josep	(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
	Morell, Ferran	(Vall d'Hebron Hospital, Barcelona)

Known Authors

	van Tongeren, Martie	(Manchester University)
	Raulf-Heimsoth, Monika	(Bochum)
	Bernstein, David	(Cincinatti)
	Swanson, Mark	()
	Burney, Peter	(Kings College, London)
	Prezant, David	(Albert Einstein College, New York)
	Dumas, Orianne	(Villejuif, France)
	Preisser, Alexandra	(Hamburg)
	Merget, Rolf	(Bochum)
	Cherry, Nicola	(University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)