Vastly expanded and completely re-written, this is the definitive companion and revision aid for the short answer paper which forms part of the Final FRCA examination. It includes a comprehensive introduction to this section of the examination together with details of examination technique (much of which applies both to oral and to written questions). It contains 180 sample questions which cover the breadth of the specialty and which are divided into subspecialty areas. Each question is prefaced with a comment about the topic which attempts to place it in context to suggest the underlying rationale and to indicate its importance.

Preface Preface to the first edition 1. Advice on answering short answer questions 2. General anaesthesia 3. Anaesthesia and medical disease 4. Medicine and intensive care 5. Obstetric anaesthesia 6. Paediatric anaesthesia 7. Neuroanaesthesia 8. Acute and chronic pain 9. Trauma and emergency anaesthesia 10. Anatomy, applied anatomy and regional anaesthesia 11. Pharmacology and applied pharmacology 12. Clinical measurement and equipment 13. Cardiac and thoracic anaesthesia.