Specialty Focus: Pulmonary

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This week is National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week. The National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute defines COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) as "a progressive disease that makes it hard to breathe." Smoking can lead to COPD as well as instances when air quality is compromised. To learn more about this disease, click here.

Legally, this disease may bring about cases from instances such as secondhand smoke, or a worker that was around fumes at a construction site. TASA offers pulmonary experts that specialize in this area. To view them and learn more, please click here.