53 - Respiratory Therapy To the Rescue! Asthma, COPD and You.

Our guest ,Aaron Smith,RRT, MBA, is a registered respiratory therapist and clinical manager in Prince Georges County , Maryland. As a healthcare practitioner, Mr. Smith not only cares for patients with asthma, respiratory failure and cardiac failure, he also leads an education team that helps outpatients and physicians develop and understand their Asthma Action Plans-a management plan developed by physicians to help patients and caregivers manage asthma. We discuss the challenges of caring for a child with asthma , smoking cessation and COPD(chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).