Table Of ContentPractice Single Best
Answer Questions for
the Final FRCA
A Revision Guide
Practice Single Best
Answer Questions for
the Final FRCA
A Revision Guide
Edited by
Hozefa Ebrahim
SpecialistRegistrar,QueenElizabethHospital,Birmingham,
AssociateClinicalTeachingFellow,
UniversityHospitalsBirmingham,UK
Khalid Hasan
ConsultantandCollegeTutor,
QueenElizabethHospital,Birmingham,UK
Mark Tindall
ConsultantandCollegeTutor,
RussellsHallHospital,Birmingham,UK
Michael Clarke
SpecialistRegistrar,QueenElizabethHospital,Birmingham,
andAdvancedPainFellow,UniversityofBirmingham,UK
Natish Bindal
ConsultantintheDepartmentofAnaesthesia,
andConsultant,QueenElizabethHospital,Birmingham,UK
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Contents
Listofcontributors pagevi
Listofabbreviations viii
Classificationofquestionsbytopic xii
ForewordbyProfHutton xv
ForewordbyProfBion xvii
Introduction:angleofattack xix
Acknowledgements xxii
PaperA–Questions 1 PaperG–Questions 142
PaperA–Answers 10 PaperG–Answers 151
PaperB–Questions 25 PaperH–Questions 165
PaperB–Answers 34 PaperH–Answers 174
PaperC–Questions 49 PaperJ–Questions 188
PaperC–Answers 58 PaperJ–Answers 197
PaperD–Questions 74 PaperK–Questions 212
PaperD–Answers 83 PaperK–Answers 220
PaperE–Questions 96
PaperE–Answers 104
PaperF–Questions 118
PaperF–Answers 127
Index 235
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Principal contributors
EdwardCopley NicholasCrombie
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia ConsultantAnaesthetist
WestMidlandsDeanery,Birmingham,UK QueenElizabethHospital,
Birmingham,UK
AnnaPierson
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia NeilHCrooks
WestMidlandsDeanery,Birmingham,UK SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesiaand
IntensiveCareMedicine
RichardPierson
WestMidlandsDeanery,
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia
Birmingham,UK
WestMidlandsDeanery,Birmingham,UK
HozefaEbrahim
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesiaand
IntensiveCareMedicine
Contributors WestMidlandsDeanery,
Birmingham,UK
IanEwington
MichaelAllan SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia andIntensiveCareMedicine
WestMidlandsDeanery,Birmingham,UK WestMidlandsDeanery,
Birmingham,UK
NatishBindal
ConsultantAnaesthetist JamesGeoghegan
QueenElizabethHospital,Birmingham,UK ConsultantAnaesthetist
QueenElizabethHospital,
CatrionaBentley
Birmingham,UK
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia
WestMidlandsDeanery,Birmingham,UK Au-ChyunNicoleGoh
ClinicalFellowinPaediatricIntensive
HannahChurch
CareMedicine
ConsultantAnaesthetist BirminghamChildren’sHospital,UK
QueenElizabethHospital,
Birmingham,UK AndrewGHaldane
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia
MichaelBClarke
WestMidlandsDeanery,Birmingham,UK
AdvancedPainTrainee
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia KhalidHasan
WestMidlandsDeanery, ConsultantAnaesthetistandCollegeTutor
Birmingham,UK QueenElizabethHospital,Birmingham,UK
LloydCraker MaxSimonHodges
ConsultantAnaesthetist SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia
NorthStaffordshireHospital,UK WestMidlandsDeanery,Birmingham,UK
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Principalcontributors
EricHodgson RandeepMullhi
ChiefSpecialistAnaesthesiologist, SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesiaand
InkosiAlbertLuthuiCentralHospital IntensiveCareMedicine
HonorarySeniorLecturer, WestMidlandsDeanery,Birmingham,UK
NelsonRMandelaSchoolofMedicine,
RebeccaParis
Durban,SouthAfrica
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia
AsimIqbal WestMidlandsDeanery,Birmingham,UK
ClinicalFellowinHepatobiliaryAnaesthesia
SachinRastogi
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia
WestMidlandsDeanery,Birmingham,UK PainFellow
TheHospitalforSickChildren,
PaulJeanrenaud Toronto,Canada
ConsultantinIntensiveCareMedicineand
SimonSmart
Anaesthesia
WhistonHospital,Merseyside,UK ConsultantAnaesthetist
QueenElizabethHospital,
EmilyJohnson Birmingham,UK
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia
WestMidlandsDeanery, InsiyaSusnerwalla
Birmingham,UK SpecialtyTraineeinAnaesthesia
NorthWesternDeanery,Manchester,UK
DeepakJoseph
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia AlifiaTameem
WestMidlandsDeanery, SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesia
Birmingham,UK WestMidlandsDeanery,Birmingham,UK
MichaelMcAlindon MarkTindall
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesiaand ConsultantAnaesthetist
IntensiveCareMedicine RussellsHallHospital,Dudley,UK
WestMidlandsDeanery,
LauraTulloch
Birmingham,UK
SpecialistRegistrarinAnaesthesiaand
CraigMcGrath IntensiveCareMedicine
ConsultantAnaesthetist WestMidlandsDeanery,
QueenElizabethHospital,Birmingham,UK Birmingham,UK
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Abbreviations
AAA abdominalaorticaneurysm
AChR acetylcholinereceptor
ACT activatedclottingtime
ACTH adrenocorticotrophichormone
ADH antidiuretichormone
AIR anaesthesia-relatedrhabdomyolysis
AKI acutekidneyinjury
ALSG advancedlifesupportgroup
ALI acutelunginjury
APTT activatedpartialthromboplastintime
ARDS acuterespiratorydistresssyndrome
ARF acuterenalfailure
BMI bodymassindex
BMS baremetalstent
BP bloodpressure
CABG coronaryarterybypassgraft
CAS centralanticholinergicsyndrome
CDH congenitaldiaphragmatichernia
CDI Clostridiumdifficileinfection
CK creatinekinase
CMRO cerebralmetabolicoxygenreplacement
2
CNB centralneuraxialblock
CNS centralnervoussystem
CO cardiacoutput
COHb carboxyhaemoglobin
CPB cardiopulmonarybypass
CPP chronicpelvicpain
CPSP chronicpostsurgicalpain
CRF chronicrenalfailure
CRPS complexregionalpainsyndrome
CSE combinedspinal–epidural
CSF cerebrospinalfluid
CT computerizedtomography
CTPA computerizedtomographypulmonaryangiogram
CRT cardiacresynchronizationtherapy
CSWS cerebralsalt-wastingsyndrome
CXR chestX-ray
DAPT dualantiplatelettherapy
DES drug-elutingstent
DI diabetesinsipidus
DLT doublelumentube
DKA diabeticketoacidosis
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