Dr. Pritesh Patel MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
1 Saint Mary Pl Shreveport LA, 71101About
Dr. Pritesh Patel is a critical care surgeon practicing in Shreveport, LA. Dr. Patel specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Patel has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
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