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Title Airborne hazards related to deployment / edited by Coleen P. Baird and Deanna K. Harkins
Published Fort Sam Houston, Texas : Borden Institute, US Army Medical Department Center and School ; Falls Church, Virginia : Office of The Surgeon General, United States Army, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 417 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Series Textbooks of military medicine
Textbooks of military medicine.
Contents Cover; Front Matter; Contents; Contributors; Additional Acknowledgments; Foreword by The Surgeon General; Preface; Prologue; Introduction; Section I: Airborne Exposures and Characterization; 1 Overview of Airborne Hazards in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn; 2 Background of Deployment-Related Airborne Exposures of Interest and Use of Exposure Data in Environmental Epidemiology Studies; 3 Deployment to Al Anbar: A Seabee Battalion Surgeon's Perspective
4 Pulmonary Response to Airborne Hazards: Interpreting Cases of Suspected Deployment-Related Lung Disease5 Future Improvement to Individual Exposure Characterization for Deployed Military Personnel; Section II: Population Surveillance; 6 Epidemiology of Airborne Hazards in the Deployed Environment; 7 Discussion Summary: Defining Health Outcomes in Epidemiological Investigations of Populations Deployed in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom; 8 Pulmonary Function Testing-Spirometry Testing for Population Surveillance
9 Discussion Summary: Recommendation for Surveillance Spirometry in Military Personnel10 Spirometry Monitoring and Prevention Using Spirola Software; Section III: Follow-up Medical Care of Service Members and Veterans; 11 Discussion Summary: Basic Diagnosis and Workup of Symptomatic Individuals; 12 Allergic Airway Disease and Deployment to the Middle East; 13 Follow-up Medical Care of Service Members and Veterans-Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing; 14 Value of Lung Biopsy in Workup of Symptomatic Individuals
15 The Problems With Constrictive Bronchiolitis: Histopathological and Radiological Perspectives16 Military Personnel With Postdeployment Dyspnea: Chronic Lung Disease and the Role of Surgical Lung Biopsy; 17 Evaluating the Effects of Airborne Hazards: A Clinical Perspective From the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center; 18 Experience With Emerging Lung Diseases From the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; 19 Follow-up Medical Care of Service Members and Veterans: Case Reports-Usual and Unusual; 20 Veterans Affairs Symposium: Case Reports
21 Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center Experience With Postdeployment Dyspnea Case Reports22 Discussion Summary: Methodological Considerations to Design a Pulmonary Case Series and a National, Broad-based Registry for Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom; Section IV: Health Communication and Outreach; 23 Risk Communication: An Essential Element of Effective Care; 24 Community-based Participatory Research: An Overview for Application in Department of Defense/Veterans Affairs Research; 25 Toxic-Embedded Fragments Registry: Lessons Learned
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes PDF version; title from title screen (viewed August 24, 2015)
Subject Air -- Pollution -- Health aspects -- Iraq
Air -- Pollution -- Health aspects -- Afghanistan
Air -- Pollution -- Physiological effect -- Iraq
Air -- Pollution -- Physiological effect -- Afghanistan
Lungs -- Diseases -- Diagnosis.
Pollutants -- Health aspects -- Iraq
Pollutants -- Health aspects -- Afghanistan
Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Veterans -- Health aspects
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Veterans -- Health aspects
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Veterans -- Health aspects
Veterans -- Medical care -- United States
Persian Gulf War, 1991.
Lungs -- Diseases.
Pulmonary function tests.
Veterans.
Air Pollutants, Occupational -- adverse effects
Gulf War
Iraq War, 2003-2011
Afghan Campaign 2001-
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Function Tests
Military Personnel
Veterans
veterans.
Pulmonary function tests
Lungs -- Diseases
Veterans
Air -- Pollution -- Health aspects
Air -- Pollution -- Physiological effect
Lungs -- Diseases -- Diagnosis
Pollutants -- Health aspects
Veterans -- Medical care
SUBJECT Iraq
Afghanistan
Subject Afghanistan
Iraq
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Baird, Coleen P., editor.
Harkins, Deanna K., editor.
Borden Institute (U.S.), publisher.
United States. Department of the Army. Office of the Surgeon General, issuing body.
ISBN 0160939011
9780160939013
9780160939037
0160939038