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Fares G. Mouchantaf, MD

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Pulmonology, Critical Care

77 Herrick Street, Beverly, MA 01915

interventional pulmonology, lung cancer

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Essam Ansari M.D.

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(3 ratings)

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Adult Pulmonology, Adult Critical Care

85 Herrick Street, Beverly, MA 01915

978-922-3000
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Joan Tryzelaar, MD

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General Surgery, Critical Care, Wound Care

500 Cummings Center, Beverly, MA 01915

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Dr. William Vasilos Kastrinakis MD

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Pediatric General Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Colon & Rectal Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Critical Care

81 Highland Avenue, Salem, MA 01970

978-882-6868

acid reflux (GERD), hernia, melanoma ...
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Michael Colancecco, DO

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Pulmonology, Critical Care

85 Herrick Street, Beverly, MA 01915

978-922-3000

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease, asthma

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Dr. Jaime Alfredo Rivera MD

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Pediatric General Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Colon & Rectal Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Critical Care

81 Highland Avenue, Salem, MA 01970

978-882-6868

diverticular disease, colonoscopy, gallbladder removal surgery (cholecystectomy) ...
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Avignat N. Patel, MD

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Pulmonology, Critical Care

85 Herrick Street, Beverly, MA 01915

978-922-3000

interstitial lung disease, intensive care

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Dr. Marc Stuart Rubin MD

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(3 ratings)

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Pediatric General Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Colon & Rectal Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Critical Care

81 Highland Avenue, Salem, MA 01970

978-882-6868
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Dr. James H. Balcom IV MD

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Pediatric General Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Colon & Rectal Surgery, Surgical Oncology

81 Highland Avenue, Salem, MA 01970

978-882-6868
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Dr. James Matthew Dargin M.D.

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Pulmonology, Emergency Medicine, Adult Critical Care

85 Herrick Street, Beverly, MA 01915

978-922-3000

intensive care
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Matthew P. Gilman, MD

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Pulmonology, Critical Care

77 Herrick Street, Beverly, MA 01915

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Maryam Bita Tabrizi M.D.

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Trauma Surgery, Critical Care

81 Highland Avenue, Salem, MA 01970

978-882-6868

diverticular disease, intensive care, trauma ...
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Ghazwan Acash M.D.

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Adult Pulmonology, Adult Critical Care

85 Herrick Street, Beverly, MA 01915

978-922-3000

interventional pulmonology, lung cancer
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Edward J. Martinez, MD

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Critical Care, Urology

75 Herrick Street, Beverly, MA 01915

benign prostatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostate), kidney cancer, testicular cancer ...

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Jonathan Ludmir MD

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Pediatric Interventional Cardiology, Adult Critical Care, Adult Cardiology

81 Highland Avenue, Salem, MA 01970

978-354-4009

echocardiogram (echo)
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Dr. Anthony W. Gray Jr. M.D.

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Adult Pulmonology, Adult Critical Care

85 Herrick Street, Beverly, MA 01915

978-922-3000

pulmonary rehabilitation treatment, interventional pulmonology, intensive care

What is Critical Care?

Critical care, or intensive care medicine, is the delivery of medical care to patients whose illness or injury is so seriously life threatening that they would likely die without intervention. It usually takes place in ICUs or trauma centers. It is referred to as critical care in North America, while it is called intensive care or intensive therapy in the rest of the world. Specialists in this field are sometimes referred to as intensivists.

Critical care may encompass a broad variety of medical specialties in the efforts to save a patient's life. Critical care specialists must have a good knowledge of anesthesiology, surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, and other specialties. Besides their medical knowledge, intensivists must know a great deal about end-of-life issues, including ethics, advanced directives, and family counseling and bereavement.

Critical care is a relatively modern specialty, which developed along with ICUs beginning in the 1950's. It looks different from regular medicine, and it can be recognized by the presence of more nurses, more monitoring, more invasive monitors and procedures, and the presence of life-sustaining therapies such as mechanical ventilators and vasopressors.

Specialists in critical care frequently have to make urgent and complex decisions. They use their knowledge and skill to provide intensive care to the most fragile patients and do their best to save lives.