You are covering the NeuroICU overnight, and a patient's pupil just changed. Do you know the next three moves, in order, before you pick up the phone?

Fellows and early-career intensivists are expected to manage intracranial pressure crises, aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, malignant ischemic stroke, status epilepticus, and brain death determination with board-level precision, often with a supervising attending a phone call away rather than at the bedside. Most training exposes you to these emergencies unevenly, a handful of cases here, a missed rotation there, leaving real gaps in pattern recognition exactly when a confident, protocol-driven response matters most.

Applied Neurocritical Care Board Review closes that gap with 25 chapters of practice-oriented, decision-focused teaching built around the actual rhythm of NeuroICU work. Each chapter walks through the physiology, the evidence, and the bedside decision points using:

Clinical Decision Point boxes that lay out Path A versus Path B and name the exact factor that separates them
Case vignettes with worked clinical reasoning, not just answers
Differential diagnosis mini-tables for rapid bedside reference
Quick-reference sidebars with the numbers you need to recall under pressure

Coverage spans multimodal neuromonitoring, aneurysmal and spontaneous hemorrhage, hyperacute ischemic stroke, status epilepticus, traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, brain death and organ donation, neuromuscular respiratory failure, CNS infection, post-arrest anoxic injury, sedation and delirium, perioperative neurosurgical care, and neuroprognostication, anchored throughout to ACC/AHA, AAN, Neurocritical Care Society, and Brain Trauma Foundation guidance.

This 2026 edition includes more than 50 clinical illustrations with precisely labeled anatomy and pathology, built to reinforce exactly the structures and findings tested on boards and encountered at 3 a.m. A QR code inside links to a companion video course of over 100 curated lectures organized by chapter, so review continues past the page.

Whether preparing for neurocritical care boards or building bedside confidence during fellowship, this reference is built to be opened during the case, not just before it.