Kate McCombe, consultant anaesthetist, Frimley Health NHS Trust, Surrey, UK Lara Wijayasiri, consultant anaesthetist, Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust, Surrey, UK

• Pharmacology 1. Receptors 2. Mechanism of Drug Action 3. Drug Interactions 4. Drug Absorption and Bioavailability 5. Drugs and the Liver 6. Drugs and the Kidney 7. Variations in Drug Metabolism 8. Isomers 9. Drugs to Draw 10. Exponential Functions 11. Dose-Response Curves 12. First- and Zero-Order Kinetics 13. Volume of Distribution, Clearance and Half-Life 14. Compartment Models 15. Total Intravenous Anaesthesia 16. Induction Agents 17. Nitrous Oxide 18. Inhalational Anaesthetic Agents (Volatile Agents) 19. Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs 20. Cholinesterase Inhibitors (Anticholinesterases) And Reversal Agents 21. Antimuscarinic Drugs 22. Opioids 23. Local Anaesthetics 24. Antiemetics and Prokinetics 25. Antiarrhythmic Drugs 26. Antihypertensive Agents 27. Diuretics 28. Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs 29. Antibiotics 30. Anticoagulants 31. Anti-Platelet Agents 32. Blood 33. Hypoglycaemic Agents 34. Anticonvulsants 35. Antidepressants 36. Drugs used to Treat Asthma 37. Miscellaneous Drugs Special Patient Groups 38. The Jehovah's Witness 39. Obesity 40. Paediatric Patient 41. Pregnancy 42. Elderly Patient 43. Down's Syndrome 44. Sickle Cell Anaemia 45. Rheumatoid Arthritis 46. Diabetes 47. Hypertensive Patient 48. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 49. Burns and Trauma 50. Brainstem Death and Organ Donation Critical Incidents 51. Anaphylaxis 52. Aspiration 53. Awareness 54. Blood Transfusion Error 55. Bradycardia 56. Cyanosis 57. Difficult to Ventilate (High Airway Pressures) 58. Failed Intubation 59. Failure to Breathe 60. High Spinal Block 61. Hypertension 62. Hypotension 63. Hypoxia 64. Intra-Arterial Injection 65. Laryngospasm 66. Local Anaesthetic Toxicity 67. Malignant Hyperpyrexia 68. Needlestick Injury 69. Post-Dural Puncture Headache 70. St Segment Changes 71. Tachyarrhythmias 72. Venous Air Embolism (VAE)