Colin Pinnock is a consultant anaesthetist at Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, and a senior examiner for the Royal College of Anaesthesia. He has written and edited several market-leading textbooks including Fundamentals of Anaesthesia and has contributed to many more such as the Qbase series. Cyprian Mendonca is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. He is a member of the Association of Anaeasthetists' of Great Britain and Ireland, the Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association and the Difficult Airway Society. Mendonca contributed a chapter to “Core Cases in Obstetric Anaesthesia”, published in 2004. He has practised anaesthesia in both India and the United Kingdom. Shyam Balasubramanian is a Specialist Registrar at the Warwickshire School of Anaesthesia and the Heart of England Foundation Trust Hospitals in Birmingham. He is a member of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia.He has practised anaesthesia in both India and the United Kingdom.

"...this practical text should benefit those training for the primary examination in anesthesia in the United Kingdom..." Michael Rooney, MD FRCP(C), Victorial Hospital, Prince Albert, Canada

• Preface ; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; SOE 1 Physiology 1: Pharmacology 1; Clinical 1; Physics, clinical measurement and safety 1; SOE 2 Physiology 2: Pharmacology 2; Clinical 2; Physics, clinical measurement and safety 2; ; SOE 3 Physiology 3: Pharmacology 3; Clinical 3; Physics, clinical measurement and safety 3; ; SOE 4 Physiology 4: Pharmacology 4; Clinical 4; Physics, clinical measurement and safety 4; SOE 5 Physiology 5: Pharmacology 5; Clinical 5; Physics, clinical measurement and safety 5; SOE 6 Physiology 6; Pharmacology 6; Clinical 6; Physics, clinical measurement and safety 6; SOE 7 Physiology 7: Pharmacology 7; Clinical 7; Physics, clinical measurement and safety 7; SOE 8 Physiology 8: Pharmacology 8; Clinical 8; Physics, clinical measurement and safety 8; SOE 9 Physiology 9: Pharmacology 9; Clinical 9; Physics, clinical measurement and safety 9; SOE 10 Physiology 10: Pharmacology 10; Clinical 10; Physics, clinical measurement and safety 10 245; Index of key topics.