Dr. Joseph J Costa MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
301 Saint Paul Pl 11th Floor Baltimore MD, 21202About
Dr. Joseph Costa is a critical care surgeon practicing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Costa 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. Costa 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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University of Maryland School of Medicine 1990
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