FREE for SOM Members (please log in on the SOM website first).
Summary:
this session will run through the traditional and newer ways of expressing lung function results at work. The seminar will run through, hopefully interesting, cases designed to make particular points and will aim to give the attendee a better understanding of these sometimes-tricky issues.
Z scores (and maybe Q scores too!) are here to stay, rightfully so, and really help all OH professionals understand how a worker's lung function is compared with their predicted values. The use of these will assist with the diagnosis of various conditions.
The session will also cover changes in lung function over time, and particularly when to be concerned about year on year lung function changes.
All OH professionals are welcome. This is not a highly technical seminar for physiologists only!!
Speaker Bio:
Professor David Fishwick MBChB FRCP(UK) AFOM FFOM (hon) FFOMI (hon) MD, Diving levels 1 and 2d
David is the Chief Medical Adviser for the Health and Safety Executive of GB and also for HSE Northern Ireland. He is currently an honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician, and previously a Consultant Respiratory Physician within the NHS in Sheffield. He holds an honorary Professorship in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Sheffield.
He works also within the Centre of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Manchester and is a Co-Director of the Centre for Workplace Health and health theme co-lead for the Thomas Ashton Institute at the University of Manchester.
His main previous clinical and research interests are the prevention and recognition of both occupational lung diseases and other illnesses attributed to work. As a practicing clinician for 40 years he has dealt with general and respiratory medical issues, and a significant amount of co morbid mental ill health; both work related and non work related.
His role in HSE requires that he continually keeps up to date with all aspects of ill health attributed to work, and his Manchester roles enable him to research within a team who have broad interests in ill health, including respiratory disease, musculoskeletal disorders, work related stress, anxiety, depression and adjustment disorder.
Chair: Janet O'Neill
FREE for SOM Members (please log in on the SOM website). You will then be sent the join link.
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