The Anaesthesia Viva: A Primary FRCA Companion

by John Urquhart , Mark Blunt , Colin Pinnock

• ISBN13: 9780521688000
• ISBN10: 0521688000
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Now expanded and updated to reflect the most recent changes in the viva examination, this two volume series is an indispensable aid to success in the anaesthesia viva examinations and appropriate to both the Primary FRCA and the Final FRCA. This first volume covers the essentials of physiology, pharmacology, and statistics and gives the candidate a comprehensive range of possible questions and exemplary model answers to provide the perfect self-learning tool, and it is also useful as a concise reference for the established anaesthetist, being packed with up-to-date information on fundamental questions that face the anaesthetist on a daily basis.

Table of Contents

1. Epidemiology and identification of the high risk surgical patient

2. Respiratory risk and complications

3. Lessons from CEPOD

4. Analgesia for the high risk patient

5. Regional anaesthetic techniques

6. The critically ill patient in the operating theatre

7. The Elderly Patient

8. Perioperative Optimisation

9. Ischaemic heart disease

10. Valvular heart disease and pulmonary hypertension

11. Emergency aortic surgery

12. Gastrointestinal surgery

13. Perioperative renal insufficiency and failure

14. The role of the Cardiologist in the high risk patient.