[Everything under control?]
Johanna EggelingBarbara KalsdorfDagmar SchaubStefanie SchierholzPeter HammerlDennis NowakChristoph LangePublished in: Pneumologie (Stuttgart, Germany) (2024)
A 43-year-old quarry worker, after being exposed to fine quartz dust for 16 years in a German quarry, is on the waiting list for a lung transplant. The inhalation of the fine dust irreversibly damaged his lungs and facilitated the occurrence of fulminant mycobacterial and fungal infections, which have already led to a unilateral pneumonectomy and increasing respiratory failure. Despite regular monitoring by the occupational health and safety board, this dramatic development of silicosis could not be prevented.
Keyphrases
- respiratory failure
- human health
- risk assessment
- air pollution
- health risk assessment
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- health risk
- mechanical ventilation
- polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- public health
- healthcare
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- heavy metals
- mental health
- health information
- climate change
- drinking water
- pulmonary fibrosis
- health promotion
- liver failure