The Anaesthesia Viva: A Primary FRCA Companion

by John Urquhart , Mark Blunt , Colin Pinnock , With contributions by Mark Dixon

• ISBN13: 9781841101026
• ISBN10: 1841101028
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Greenwich Medical Media

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

Foreword to the First Edition	v
Physiology	1	(70)
1. Questions on the Physiology of the Nervous System	3	(8)
2. Questions in Cardiovascular Physiology	11	(20)
3. Questions in Respiratory Physiology	31	(16)
4. Questions in Endocrine Physiology	47	(5)
5. Questions in Gastrointestinal Physiology	52	(5)
6. Questions on Renal Physiology	57	(4)
7. Questions in Metabolic Physiology and Biochemistry	61	(10)
Pharmacology	71	(48)
1. Questions on Anaesthetic Drugs	73	(14)
2. Questions on Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics	87	(13)
3. Questions on Cardiovascular Pharmacology	100	(4)
4. Questions on Molecular Pharmacology	104	(7)
5. Questions on the Pharmacology of the Neuromuscular Junction	111	(3)
6. Questions on Non-Anaesthetic Drugs	114	(5)
Appendix 1	119	(4)
Appendix 2	123	(72)
Index	195