Colby Baker M.D.
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
12255 S 80TH AVE STE 204 PALOS HEIGHTS IL, 60463About
Dr. Colby Baker is a critical care surgeon practicing in PALOS HEIGHTS, IL. Dr. Baker 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. Baker 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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