Practice CPSP FCPS I Anaesthesiology questions with answers and explanations.
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Rapid-sequence induction is an induction technique designed to secure the airway quickly while reducing aspiration risk.
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Minimum alveolar concentration is the alveolar concentration of an inhaled anaesthetic preventing movement in half of subjects exposed to a standard stimulus.
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End-tidal carbon dioxide is the carbon dioxide concentration measured at the end of expiration and used to assess ventilation.
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End-tidal carbon dioxide is the carbon dioxide concentration measured at the end of expiration and used to assess ventilation.
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Pulse oximetry is non-invasive estimation of arterial oxygen saturation using light absorption.
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Spinal anaesthesia is injection of local anaesthetic into cerebrospinal fluid to produce neuraxial block.
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Epidural anaesthesia is administration of local anaesthetic into the epidural space through a needle or catheter.
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Malignant hyperthermia is a life-threatening hypermetabolic reaction to triggering anaesthetic agents in susceptible individuals.
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Difficult airway is a clinical situation in which trained personnel have difficulty with ventilation, intubation or both.
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Exudate is protein-rich inflammatory fluid caused by increased vascular permeability.
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Coagulative necrosis is a pattern of cell death with preserved tissue architecture, typical of ischaemia in solid organs except brain.
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Caseous necrosis is a friable cheese-like pattern of necrosis classically associated with tuberculosis.
