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Day 10

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26 ANAESTHETICS, SEDATION & ANALGESIA

# 27 ANAESTHETICS, SEDATION & ANALGESIA 👩‍⚕️ Anaesthetics is predictable territory in MRCS Part A. Examiners return to the same cluster: LA dose calculations, the WHO ladder, ketamine in shock, opioid reversal, malignant hyperthermia, and suxamethonium contraindications. Recite the antidotes cold and calculate a lidocaine maximum in under thirty seconds — easy marks.

27 AIRWAYS

👩‍⚕️ The airway is the first letter of ATLS for a reason — hypoxic brain injury starts within minutes. Learn the landmarks cold: the cricothyroid membrane (between thyroid and cricoid cartilages) is your emergency front-of-neck access, and the cricoid is the only complete cartilage ring — the anchor for almost every

28 INTERPRETING BLOOD GASES

# 29 INTERPRETING BLOOD GASES ABG interpretation is one of the highest-yield skills in MRCS Part A. A single set of numbers can test physiology, pharmacology, surgical pathology and clinical reasoning at once — but every ABG is solved by the same five-step algorithm. Learn it cold. Normal values ParameterNormal