Anaesthesia | Exam Preparation | The Blood Gas Machine and Monitoring Gas Delivery in Anaesthetics

The Blood Gas Machine and Monitoring Gas Delivery in Anaesthetics
Session Overview
Description
This session contains two short revision tutorials using Multiple Choice Questions to assist candidates preparing for the Primary FRCA Examination.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Describe how the blood gas machine derives its results
• Describe how common errors in blood gas sampling will affect the results
• Describe how the different anaesthetic gas monitors function, and explain what they can measure and why

These MCQ Tutorials are aimed at candidates preparing for the Primary FRCA examination. MCQs written to Primary FRCA standard are used to provide a focused tutorial on important concepts and areas of the curriculum that candidates have difficulty with.

Not all areas tested in the examination are covered in these tutorials. For a comprehensive review please refer to the curriculum and e-Learning sessions within Module 07.

This session provides two revision tutorials on selected topics related to arterial blood gases.

Each tutorial begins with some ‘pre-tutorial MCQs’ to test your existing knowledge. This is followed by the revision tutorial during which we will cover the knowledge required to answer these and other similar MCQs.

The tutorials end with some ‘post-tutorial MCQs’ to re-test your understanding of the topic.