Dr. Richard M. Cressey MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
1 General St Andrea Sullivan-Dire Lawrence MA, 01841About
Dr. Richard Cressey is a critical care surgeon practicing in Lawrence, MA. Dr. Cressey 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. Cressey 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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