CAI

FCAI Written Exam 28/2/18 /  by Muhammad Amir Ayub

I couldn't remember all of the topics that came out, but here goes what I do remember:

SAQ's (10 questions in 3 hours):

  1. sedation spectrum, mida, dissociative sedation, mac safety

  2. iabp mechanism, effects, indications, contra

  3. abd hypertension, acs, measurement, effects, management

  4. smoking, bronchospasm

  5. pe, helllp, anesthesia and o&g management 

  6. acute and chronic pain, effects of pain, opioid sparing, hyperalgesia and tolerance

  7. principles and benefits of daycare surgery

  8. RA and effects of steroids, DMARDS, anesthesia

  9. sab effects layers contraindications

SBA's (50 questions in 1 hour 40 minutes):

  1. Noac

  2. Fat emb syndrome

  3. Afe

  4. Peripheral nerve injury 

  5. Management of severe mr

  6. Das extubation

  7. Sci

  8. Sympathetic hyperreflexia

  9. Preop anemia

  10. Hyper cl met acidosis

  11. Atls

  12. Hypoxia on vent

  13. Cyanotic heart disease, r to left shunt management

  14. Neonatal hypoxia w cvs problem

  15. Tbi

  16. Anesthesia for stroke (embo)

  17. Management of anti-hpt/dm

  18. Trigeminal neuralgia

  19. Dental trauma

  20. Sepsis

  21. Sedation spectrum

  22. Complications of robotic surgery (prostate)

  23. Eye op w coad, warfarin

  24. Ra for tka (don’t think i got this one right)

  25. Phrenic nerve block post bp block

  26. Rln injury post thyroidectomy

  27. Cancer pain management

  28. Svt management (algorithm)

  29. 2 poisoning q’s: 1 on beta blocker, another tca (I think)

  30. Daycare surgery discharge criteria

True/False MCQ's (30 stems with 5 subparts each in 1 hour):

  1. Air embo diagnosis

  2. Dlt absolute indications

  3. Lvedp, stroke work, coronary perfusion

  4. Ptc

  5. Diathermy 

  6. Adverse drug reactions and allergies

  7. Trisomy 21 airway

  8. Latex allergy

  9. Thermodilution accuracy

  10. Nsaids

  11. Peds aps, morphine pk in peds

  12. Bp anatomy

  13. Sensory supply of ll

  14. Hap def and bacteriology 

  15. Caudal anat and block

  16. Herpetic neuralgia

  17. Neuropathic pain syndromes of head

  18. Pcm od

  19. Apgar score

  20. Stellate ganglion block

  21. Massive transfusion

  22. Pac’s and pcwp’s (location misinterpretation)

  23. Peribulbar block

  24. Hypothermia complications

  25. Enteral nutrition 

  26. High altitude sickness

  27. Loop recorders

  28. Changes to the cvs post heart lung transplantation

  29. Ppo values post lobectomy

I'll talk about how I did in another later post. There's enough topics here to cover a year of continuous reading.