Multiple Critical Patients During Single Coverage

I am a relatively young attending, and like many of you the majority of my night shift is single coverage. Every few months it seems I have a single coverage night shift that has a category five **** storm hit with multiple critical patients arriving within 60-120 minutes of each other. Each patient requiring intubation, ventillation, multiple medications, +/- central line (they always have difficult vascular access), and moment to moment fluctuations in status requiring frequent... Multiple Critical Patients During Single Coverage
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