The Anaesthesia Viva: Volume 1, Physiology and Pharmacology
A Primary FRCA Companion

Expanded and updated to reflect the most recent changes in the viva examination

John Urquhart (Author), Mark Blunt (Author), Colin Pinnock (Author)

9780521688000, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 December 2002

208 pages
23.4 x 1.1 x 15.6 cm, 0.362 kg

' … a useful revision manual for primary examination candidates.' Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Anaesthetics [MMB]