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Intensivists - Defiance, OH

We found 7 intensivists in Defiance, OH.

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Dr. Salil Avasthi, MD

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(26 ratings)

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Adult Pulmonology, Adult Critical Care

1400 E 2nd Street, Defiance, OH

419-783-3211

pulmonary hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma

Dr. Salil Avasthi's specialties are adult critical care and adult pulmonology. He practices in Toledo, OH, Defiance, OH, and Sylvania, OH. Dr. Avasthi attended Government Medical College, Patiala.
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Dr. Vinod Khatri, MD

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(16 ratings)

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Adult Pulmonology, Sleep Medicine, Adult Critical Care

1400 E 2nd Street, Defiance, OH 43512

419-784-1414

pulmonary hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma

Dr. Vinod Khatri's areas of specialization are adult critical care, sleep medicine, and adult pulmonology; he sees patients in Toledo, OH, Defiance, OH, and Perrysburg, OH. He attended Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School.
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Dr. John W. Shaw, MD

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(23 ratings)

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Pediatric General Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Colon & Rectal Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Critical Care

1400 E Second Street, Defiance, OH 43512

breast surgery

Dr. John Shaw is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
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Koren A. Walsh, APRN-CNP

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(3 ratings)

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Pulmonology, Geriatrics, Critical Care

1400 E 2nd Street, Defiance, OH 43512

419-783-3226

Ms. Koren Walsh is a pulmonology (lung & respiratory disease) and critical care (intensive care medicine) specialist in Toledo, OH, Perrysburg, OH, and Tiffin, OH.
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Dr. Harith Al-Ataby, MD

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(No ratings)

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Adult Pulmonology, Sleep Medicine, Adult Critical Care

1400 E 2nd Street, Defiance, OH

419-783-3211

pulmonary hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Dr. Harith Al-Ataby is an adult critical care and adult pulmonology specialist in Defiance, OH, Toledo, OH, and Tiffin, OH. He attended Sulaimani College Of Medicine, University Of Sulaimani Medical School.
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Michelle A. Bacon, APRN-CNP, NP

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General Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Critical Care

1400 E 2nd Street, Defiance, OH 43512

419-784-1414

Ms. Michelle Bacon's areas of specialization are family medicine, general internal medicine, and critical care (intensive care medicine); she sees patients in Defiance, OH.
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Stacie Kregel, CNP

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Pulmonology, Family Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Critical Care

1252 Ralston Avenue, Defiance, OH 43512

419-291-7555

Ms. Stacie Kregel works as a pulmonology (lung & respiratory disease), family medicine, and critical care (intensive care medicine) specialist in Toledo, OH and Sylvania, OH.

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What is Critical Care?

Critical care, or intensive care medicine, is the delivery of medical care to patients whose illness or injury is so seriously life threatening that they would likely die without intervention. It usually takes place in ICUs or trauma centers. It is referred to as critical care in North America, while it is called intensive care or intensive therapy in the rest of the world. Specialists in this field are sometimes referred to as intensivists.

Critical care may encompass a broad variety of medical specialties in the efforts to save a patient's life. Critical care specialists must have a good knowledge of anesthesiology, surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, and other specialties. Besides their medical knowledge, intensivists must know a great deal about end-of-life issues, including ethics, advanced directives, and family counseling and bereavement.

Critical care is a relatively modern specialty, which developed along with ICUs beginning in the 1950's. It looks different from regular medicine, and it can be recognized by the presence of more nurses, more monitoring, more invasive monitors and procedures, and the presence of life-sustaining therapies such as mechanical ventilators and vasopressors.

Specialists in critical care frequently have to make urgent and complex decisions. They use their knowledge and skill to provide intensive care to the most fragile patients and do their best to save lives.