World Trade Center Pulmonary Diseases and Multi-Organ System Manifestations

by Anthony M. Szema (Editor)

Overview

This book addresses the pulmonary and non-pulmonary manifestations related to exposure to airborne hazards after the collapse of the World Trade Center. Leading experts consider both short and long term effects on survivors, first responders, and residents of surrounding areas and offer clinical practice guidelines for treatment. Respiratory complications are the most obvious manifestation, but the text additionally covers oncology, psychiatry, and other organ systems for both adults and children. Knowledge of the medical ramifications from the World Trade Center collapse has broad scientific applicability to occupational and environmental medicine, preventive medicine, and epidemiology. With the advent of bioterrorism since 9/11, understanding prevention, treatment, monitoring, and basic and clinical research aspects of particulate matter air pollution is relevant and critically important to being a medical provider. This book will prove useful to pulmonologists, primary care providers, epidemiologists, psychiatrists, occupational and environmental specialists, allergists, immunologists, toxicologists and public policy experts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319593722
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	08/30/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	159
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Anthony M. Szema, MD, FCCP. FACAAI, FAAAAI, FACP

Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Columbia University Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Epidemiology Group, NY, NY

Stony Brook University Department of Technology and Society. College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook. NY

Three Village Allergy and Asthma, PLLC, South Setauket, NY

Table of Contents

Basic Science of the World Trade Center Collapse.- World Trade Center-Related Epidemiology.- World Trade Center-Related Toxicology.- World Trade Center-Related Pulmonary Diseases.- World Trade Center-Related Allergy and Immunology Diseases.- World Trade Center-Related Infectious Diseases.- World Trade Center-Related Oncology and Hematology.- World Trade Center-Related Gastroenterology.- World Trade Center-Related Otolaryngology.- World Trade Center-Related Psychiatry.- World Trade Center-Related Pediatrics.- World Trade Center-Related Obstetrics/Gynecology.- Preventative Medicine in the Aftermath of 9/11.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: John T. Pierce, MBBS (MD) PhD(Navy Environmental Health Center)
Description: This book covers both pulmonary and nonpulmonary outcomes related to exposure to airborne hazards after the collapse of the World Trade Center. Contributors considered both short-and long-term effects on survivors, first responders, and residents living nearby.
Purpose: Certainly this crucial book as well as its considerable research base provides a template for future investigations, whether in occupational and environmental medicine, preventive medicine, or epidemiology.
Audience: Professor Szema believes this book will prove useful to pulmonologists, primary care providers, epidemiologists, psychiatrists, occupational and environmental specialists, allergists, immunologists, toxicologists, and public policy experts.
Features: The 10 chapters cover the influence of WTC programs on research, long-term PTSD and comorbidities among responders, interstitial pulmonary disease after exposure, persistent lower respiratory symptoms in the WTC survivor program, asthma in children in Chinatown after 9/11, cancer risk after 9/11, WTC asthma, and WTC dust composition.
Assessment: Inclusion of nonpulmonary comorbidities, stretching all the way to PTSD, considerably extends the book's reach. In places, the book takes on the expected characteristics of a reference useful in conducting these examinations and in other places it is a riveting medical history of an attack and subsequent human events. In my opinion, both facets are important and instructive, making the book a valuable reference. I also believe that individuals who are far from the healthcare arena will read this book to review and reflect upon this century's history.

Doody's Review Service

This crucial book as well as its considerable research base provides a template for future investigations, whether in occupational and environmental medicine, preventive medicine, or epidemiology. … this book will prove useful to pulmonologists, primary care providers, epidemiologists, psychiatrists, occupational and environmental specialists, allergists, immunologists, toxicologists, and public policy experts.” (Thomas J. Pierce, Doody's Book Reviews, June, 2018)

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