This book provides answers to the questions regularly posed by the examiners. It collates information and delivers it in a relevant and user-friendly layout to make your exam preparation a little easier.
Pharmacology
1. Receptors
2. Mechanism of Drug Action
3. Drug Interactions
4. Drug Absorption and Bioavailability
5. Drugs and the Liver
6. Drugs and the Kidney
7. Variations in Drug Metabolism
8. Isomers
9. Drugs to Draw
10. Exponential Functions
11. Dose-Response Curves
12. First- and Zero-Order Kinetics
13. Volume of Distribution, Clearance and Half-Life
14. Compartment Models
15. Total Intravenous Anaesthesia
16. Induction Agents
17. Nitrous Oxide
18. Inhalational Anaesthetic Agents (Volatile Agents)
19. Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs
20. Cholinesterase Inhibitors (Anticholinesterases) And Reversal Agents
21. Antimuscarinic Drugs
22. Opioids
23. Local Anaesthetics
24. Antiemetics and Prokinetics
25. Antiarrhythmic Drugs
26. Antihypertensive Agents
27. Diuretics
28. Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
29. Antibiotics
30. Anticoagulants
31. Anti-Platelet Agents
32. Blood
33. Hypoglycaemic Agents
34. Anticonvulsants
35. Antidepressants
36. Drugs used to Treat Asthma
37. Miscellaneous Drugs Special Patient Groups
38. The Jehovah's Witness
39. Obesity
40. Paediatric Patient
41. Pregnancy
42. Elderly Patient
43. Down's Syndrome
44. Sickle Cell Anaemia
45. Rheumatoid Arthritis
46. Diabetes
47. Hypertensive Patient
48. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
49. Burns and Trauma
50. Brainstem Death and Organ Donation Critical Incidents
51. Anaphylaxis
52. Aspiration
53. Awareness
54. Blood Transfusion Error
55. Bradycardia
56. Cyanosis
57. Difficult to Ventilate (High Airway Pressures)
58. Failed Intubation
59. Failure to Breathe
60. High Spinal Block
61. Hypertension
62. Hypotension
63. Hypoxia
64. Intra-Arterial Injection
65. Laryngospasm
66. Local Anaesthetic Toxicity
67. Malignant Hyperpyrexia
68. Needlestick Injury
69. Post-Dural Puncture Headache
70. St Segment Changes
71. Tachyarrhythmias
72. Venous Air Embolism (VAE)
Kate McCombe, consultant anaesthetist, Frimley Health NHS Trust, Surrey, UK Lara Wijayasiri, consultant anaesthetist, Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Trust, Surrey, UK
