Alberto T. Kocurek, MD, an Emergency Medicine Physician with the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics at HCA Houston Healthcare Mainland
Get to know Emergency Medicine Physician Dr. Alberto T. Kocurek, who serves patients in Texas City, Texas.
Dr. Kocurek is a board-certified emergency medicine physician who is affiliated with the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics at HCA Houston Healthcare Mainland in Texas City, Texas.
HCA Houston Mainland is a 222-bed hospital offering a full-range of services, including emergency care, orthopedic surgery, and heart care. The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at HCA Houston Healthcare Mainland applies the newest medical advances to healing persistent wounds. The center’s team of physicians, nurses, and technicians are specially trained to manage chronic wounds and complex injuries. They treat many wounds that have resisted healing after months and even years of traditional treatment, including: diabetic wounds (including diabetic foot ulcers), surgical wounds, traumatic wounds, ischemic wounds (those involving a lack of blood flow), pressure ulcers (including bed sores), radiation-induced tissue injuries, as well as arterial and venous wounds.
A 1989 graduate of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Dr. Kocurek is board-certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). The ABIM is a physician-led, non-profit, independent evaluation organization driven by doctors who want to achieve higher standards for better care in a rapidly changing world.
With an impressive professional journey that spans thirty years, the doctor has expanse knowledge and unrivaled expertise in all facets of critical care medicine, as well as undersea and hyperbaric medicine. The subspecialty of undersea and hyperbaric medicine is a discipline that deals with the prevention of injury and illness due to exposure to environments in which the ambient pressure is increased, such as in diving or hyperbaric chamber exposure, and the therapeutic use of high environmental pressure and the delivery of oxygen under high pressure to treat disease. The scope of the subspecialty emphasizes the occupational, environmental, safety, and clinical aspects of diving, hyperbaric chamber operations, compressed air work, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Emergency medicine is the medical specialty concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians care for unscheduled and undifferentiated patients of all ages. An emergency physician is a physician who works at an emergency department to care for ill patients. They specialize in advanced cardiac life support, resuscitation, trauma care, such as fractures and soft tissue injuries, and management of other life-threatening situations.
Learn More about Dr. Alberto T. Kocurek:
Through his findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/2519824-Alberto-Kocurek-emergency-physician-Texas-City-TX-77591 or through HCA Houston Healthcare Mainland, https://hcahoustonhealthcare.com/physicians/detail.dot?npi=1609953207
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