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The Living Environment Flashcards

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  • list the hazardous media.(3)
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  • Air
  • Water
  • Soil
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  • list the hazardous media.(3)
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  • Air
  • Water
  • Soil
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  • What are the routes of exposure in these hazardous media? (3)
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  • Inhalation
  • Ingestion
  • Skin absorption
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  • What are the point (in a location) sources of environmental hazards.(4)
  • Mobile sources? (2)
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  • Industrial pollution
  • Contaminated water supplies
  • Contaminated soil
  • Toxins in the food chain

Mobile sources

  • Motor vehicles
  • Aircraft
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  • List the Environmental diseases. CANSAIC
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  • Cardiorespiratory diseases
  • Skin diseases
  • Neurological diseases
  • Cancers
  • Adverse reproductive outcomes
  • Immune system and blood disorders.
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  • What are the four steps in the diagnosis of an environmental disease/illness. EDDM [discuss them]
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  1. Establish the characteristics of the illness.
  2. Define the environmental exposure.
  3. Demonstrate the correlation between exposure and clinical manifestations.
  4. Make the diagnosis based on aggregation and interpretation of available data.
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what are cardinal exposure indices? 3

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  1. Identification of the exposure
  2. Duration of the exposure
  3. Magnitude or extent of the exposure
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  • What are the sources for assessing exposure?4 MCTS
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  1. Material safety data sheets
  2. Toxicological info from health agencies
  3. Site visits
  4. Community information
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How do you establish a correlation between disease and the environment?

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  1. Does this exposure cause the illness under question?
  2. Does it cause disease at the exposure dose that has been experienced by the patient?
  3. Based on external data
  4. Clinical experiential evidence
  5. Pre-existing disease
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  • Finally making the diagnosis. how? MATTER
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Multifactorial causes 
Alternate explanations 
Toxicological evidence 
Temporal relationship
Evidence of exposure 
Removal from exposure and re-exposure
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  • List the environmental disasters.
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  • Bophal
  • Minimata
  • Thor chemicals
  • Chrome chemicals
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  • Chrome toxicity signs
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  • Nasal septal perforation
  • Skin ulcerations
  • Cancers
  • Asthma
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CONCLUSION on The Living Environment

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#The environment is responsible for increased ill-health
#Careful clinical assessments are necessary to understand the role of environmental exposures in individual patients
#Appropriate clinical management may require environmental intervention, including removal from offensive environmental or reduction in exposure.
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  • What are the routes of exposure in these hazardous media? (3)
A
  • Inhalation
  • Ingestion
  • Skin absorption
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15
Q
  • What are the point (in a location) sources of environmental hazards.(4)
  • Mobile sources? (2)
A
  • Industrial pollution
  • Contaminated water supplies
  • Contaminated soil
  • Toxins in the food chain

Mobile sources

  • Motor vehicles
  • Aircraft
How well did you know this?
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16
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  • List the Environmental diseases. CANSAIC
A
  • Cardiorespiratory diseases
  • Skin diseases
  • Neurological diseases
  • Cancers
  • Adverse reproductive outcomes
  • Immune system and blood disorders.
17
Q
  • What are the four steps in the diagnosis of an environmental disease/illness. EDDM [discuss them]
A
  1. Establish the characteristics of the illness.
  2. Define the environmental exposure.
  3. Demonstrate the correlation between exposure and clinical manifestations.
  4. Make the diagnosis based on aggregation and interpretation of available data.
    ~~~
18
Q

what are cardinal exposure indices? 3

A
  1. Identification of the exposure
  2. Duration of the exposure
  3. Magnitude or extent of the exposure
19
Q
  • What are the sources for assessing exposure?4 MCTS
A
  1. Material safety data sheets
  2. Toxicological info from health agencies
  3. Site visits
  4. Community information
20
Q

How do you establish a correlation between disease and the environment?

A
  1. Does this exposure cause the illness under question?
  2. Does it cause disease at the exposure dose that has been experienced by the patient?
  3. Based on external data
  4. Clinical experiential evidence
  5. Pre-existing disease
21
Q
  • Finally making the diagnosis. how? MATTER
A 
Multifactorial causes 
Alternate explanations 
Toxicological evidence 
Temporal relationship
Evidence of exposure 
Removal from exposure and re-exposure
22
Q
  • List the environmental disasters.
A
  • Bophal
  • Minimata
  • Thor chemicals
  • Chrome chemicals
23
Q
  • Chrome toxicity signs
A
  • Nasal septal perforation
  • Skin ulcerations
  • Cancers
  • Asthma
24
Q

CONCLUSION on The Living Environment

A 
#The environment is responsible for increased ill-health
#Careful clinical assessments are necessary to understand the role of environmental exposures in individual patients
#Appropriate clinical management may require environmental intervention, including removal from offensive environmental or reduction in exposure.

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