š Step 1. Curriculum Coverage
š Pharmacology
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- Stages of general anaesthesia.
- Balanced anaesthesia.
- Inhalational agents: NāO, halothane, isoflurane, sevoflurane and desflurane.
- Pharmacokinetics and blood:gas partition coefficient.
- Mechanism and pharmacological effects.
- MAC50
- Adverse effects.
- Second-gas effect.
- Diffusion hypoxia.
- Malignant hyperthermia and management.
- Properties of an ideal inhalational anaesthetic.
- IV agents: thiopentone, propofol, etomidate, ketamine, midazolam and fentanyl.
- Mechanisms, uses and adverse effects.
- Thiopentone redistribution.
- Neuroleptanalgesia/neuroleptanaesthesia.
- Dissociative anaesthesia.
- TIVA
- Pre-anaesthetic medications.
- Obstetric analgesia.
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