Primary FRCA OSCE-SOE exam January 2012 Coventry collection ...

Primary FRCA OSCE-SOE exam January 2012
c) Methods of temperature measurement. Detailed discussion on electrical methods
with drawing and discusiion of graphs.
2) Pressure
a) Define and units
b) Application in clinical practice
c) Shown a picture of pressure regulator and asked about its principle (weird picture)
3) Fibreoptic:
a) parts, difference between fibreoptic laryngoscope and fibreoptic broncoscope
b) uses, principle of working , advantage over traditional laryngoscope
c) cleaning and sterilisation
SOE set 13
Pharmacology
- opening q: 'what drugs can we give intravenously?' - not a q i had prepared for, but
started by saying i could classify, then first mentioned iv induction agents, at which
point he stopped me and took me entirely down that route. all the structures and how
they relate to the drug characteristics
- colloids/ ideal colloid
- dose-response curves and shifts
Physiology
- sodium handling in the body (very specific)
- hypoxia, curves
- fluid movement across capillaries - gradients.
This felt like my worst viva, sometimes felt like a tutorial!
clinical
- morbidly obese man for pilonidal sinus and flap repair - all the issues
Physics:
- laryngoscopes - design, features
- osmolarity, osmometer, definitions
- can't remember sorry.
SOE set 14
Pharmacology
Discuss why you would use sevo or desflurane as alternative to isoflurane.
Routes of administration of drugs- discussion into intrathecal and why we would
administer drugs in this way (pharmacokinetics, mechanism of action)
Type II diabetes mellitus drugs- wanted detail description of how peripheral
sensitization to insulin occurred.
Physiology
Reflex arcs, pain pathways
Coventry collection: Many thanks to the candidates from January 2012
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