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Christopher Fuertes DO

Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine

10800 KNIGHTS RD PHILADELPHIA PA, 19114

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Dr. Christopher Fuertes is a critical care surgeon practicing in PHILADELPHIA, PA. Dr. Fuertes 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. Fuertes 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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PHILADELPHIA, PA 19114
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