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The sheets
Each sheet is one anaesthesia topic, read in a sitting. Every rule opens its explanation and the books behind it.
- Oral board192 cases
Practice cases for the oral board
Open the oral casesEach case is a patient, the examiner's questions and an answer to say aloud before you check it.
192 cases in 11 domains. Start with the Core 80.
- Sheet 01About 28 min
Cardiac
Read CardiacPreoperative assessment, arrhythmia, ischaemia, valves, heart failure and the cardiomyopathies.
31 cards to read first, 148 explained concepts behind them, 31 practice scenarios to check yourself.
- Sheet 02About 18 min
Regional & Pain
Read Regional & PainChoosing the block, anticoagulant timings, LAST, what goes wrong after a neuraxial block, and the pain drugs.
32 cards to read first, 130 explained concepts behind them, 30 practice scenarios to check yourself.
- Sheet 03About 16 min
Pharmacology
Read PharmacologyDosing for the patient in front of you, relaxants and reversal, MAC and the volatiles, drug classes and the interactions that bite.
21 cards to read first, 129 explained concepts behind them, 21 practice scenarios to check yourself.
- Sheet 04About 18 min
Neuro & Spine
Read Neuro & SpinePerfusion and intracranial pressure, the craniotomy and its positions, neuromuscular disease, neuromonitoring and brain death, and spinal cord injury.
24 cards to read first, 118 explained concepts behind them, 23 practice scenarios to check yourself.
- Sheet 05About 14 min
Obstetric
Read ObstetricLabour analgesia, platelets before a neuraxial block, the caesarean anaesthetic, pre-eclampsia and magnesium, haemorrhage, and the airway that fails.
21 cards to read first, 88 explained concepts behind them, 21 practice scenarios to check yourself.
- Sheet 06About 13 min
Perioperative Medicine
Read Perioperative MedicineProceed or postpone, which tests and medicines, fasting and sedation, laparoscopy and positioning, temperature and nausea, and the problems after surgery.
19 cards to read first, 87 explained concepts behind them, 19 practice scenarios to check yourself.
- Sheet 07About 13 min
Respiratory & Thoracic
Read Respiratory & ThoracicBreathing reserve before surgery, lung isolation and the double-lumen tube, hypoxaemia on one lung, ventilating obstructed lungs, spirometry, loops and blood gases, and the thoracic emergencies.
24 cards to read first, 83 explained concepts behind them, 24 practice scenarios to check yourself.
- Sheet 08About 11 min
Airway
Read AirwayPredicting the difficult airway, awake or asleep, the full stomach, failed intubation and front-of-neck access, airway fire, extubation and the nerves of the larynx.
19 cards to read first, 62 explained concepts behind them, 19 practice scenarios to check yourself.
- Sheet 09About 12 min
Paediatric
Read PaediatricThe infant's small reserve, resuscitation at birth, fluids by weight, tube sizes, the neonatal surgical lesions, the blue or noisy infant, and the ex-premature baby.
22 cards to read first, 76 explained concepts behind them, 22 practice scenarios to check yourself.
- Sheet 10About 12 min
Safety & Ethics
Read Safety & EthicsConsent with and without capacity, disclosure and incident reporting, DNR orders and brain death, research ethics and statistics, the WHO checklist and infection control.
24 cards to read first, 75 explained concepts behind them, 23 practice scenarios to check yourself.
- Sheet 11About 11 min
Renal & Hepatic
Read Renal & HepaticOliguria and acute kidney injury, Child-Pugh risk, acid-base and electrolytes, TURP syndrome, the phases of liver transplantation, dialysis and cirrhosis.
23 cards to read first, 68 explained concepts behind them, 22 practice scenarios to check yourself.
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