1. Equipment You are shown a selection of filters: epidural filters, heat and moisture exchanging filters, a filter in a standard blood-giving set. - What are the pore sizes of each? - Discuss other features of these filters.
2. Regional anaesthesia Demonstrate how you would carry out a supraclavicular nerve block.
3. Regional anaesthesia Demonstrate how you would carry out a caudal block in a 5-year old child. - Where does the dura end? - What would your specific discharge criteria be? - Describe the anatomy of the sacral canal.
4. Anatomy Discuss the anatomy of the heart.
5. Examination How would you examine a head-injured patient?
6. Equipment Describe the mechanism of action of rotameters.
7. Communication Explain "can't intubate" protocol to a new anaesthetic assistant.
8. Data interpretation You are shown a capnography trace and asked to interpret it. - How does it follow arterial pCO2?
9. Equipment You are shown a laryngoscopy view. - What grade is it? - How would you use the bougie?
10. Simulator manikin Demonstrate how you would treat anaphylaxis in a simulator manikin.
11. Resuscitation How would you treat cardiac arrest following laparoscopic cholecystectomy?
12. Data interpretation You are shown and asked to interpret pulmonary artery catheter traces.
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