ICU Night Shifts: A Survival Guide for Junior Doctors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798242839885)

ICU Night Shifts are where junior doctors are truly tested.
When senior support is off-site, staffing is thin, alarms are constant, and patients are one step away from collapse, you are no longer just a doctor - you are the physiologist, the decision-maker, and the last line of defense.
This book is a practical, real-world survival guide for ICU junior doctors working night shifts. It does not re-teach textbook theory or exam definitions. Instead, it focuses on what actually matters at 2 a.m. when a patient becomes hypotensive, hypoxic, agitated, or suddenly deteriorates.
Written in a clear, narrative-driven style, this book walks you through:

• How to think like an ICU doctor at night
• How to anticipate crashes before they happen
• How to manage drips, ventilators, sedation, and pressors safely
• How to handle common ICU night emergencies with confidence
• How to work effectively with ICU nurses, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists
• How to survive the mental and emotional pressure of ICU night shifts

What makes this book different

• Night-shift focused: written specifically for after-hours ICU care
• Physiology-first approach: understand why patients are failing, not just what to prescribe
• Trend-based thinking: learn to read lactate, pressor creep, urine output, and ventilator changes before arrest happens
• Real ICU scenarios: hypotension, hypoxia, agitation, CRRT, cirrhosis, prolonged ventilation, and emergency transfers
• No fluff, no exams: only what keeps patients alive overnight

Who this book is for

• ICU junior doctors and residents
• Internal medicine and anesthesia trainees rotating through ICU
• Emergency medicine doctors covering ICU nights
• New ICU fellows wanting a strong night-shift foundation
• Any doctor who has ever felt that quiet fear when the ICU phone rings at night

Author: Essam Abdelhakim
ISBN-13: 9798242839885
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2026
Pages: 92
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d