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We hope this guide provides you and your family with the skills and information to help you with asbestos-related illnesses.  For more information, please see  Resources below.

Resources

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 2005. Asbestos and your health. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 2006. Cigarette Smoking, Asbestos Exposure, and Your Health. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services.

American Lung Association. 2005. Asbestos.Exit ATSDR Web site

Bartholomew D, Gainey A, Louie W, Phillips C, Sonnek N. 1999. Asbestosis. Omaha (NE): Creighton University School of Medicine.Exit ATSDR Web site

[bad link] Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. 2005. Airway clearance techniques (chest physiotherapy) for immotile cilia syndrome. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.Exit ATSDR Web site

Galvin JR, D’Alessandro MP. 1994. Asbestosis. In: ElectricDiffuseLung: The diagnosis of diffuse lung disease. Iowa City: University of Iowa College of Medicine Virtual Hospital.Exit ATSDR Web site

Lewis SR, Heitkemper MM, Dirksen SM. 2000. Medical/surgical nursing: assessment and management of clinical problems. 5th ed. St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book.

Harrison A, editor. 1995. Mosby’s patient teaching guide. St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book.

National Cancer Institute. 2003. Asbestos exposure: questions and answers. Bethesda: National Cancer Institute.Exit ATSDR Web site

Springhouse Corporation. 1998. Diseases: a health care professional guide. Springhouse (PA): Springhouse Corporation.

 

NOTE: Use of trade names and commercial sources is for identification and does not imply endorsement by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

 

This page last updated on December 04, 2007