This exam was done last month in Malaysia at the Academy of Medicine, Putrajaya. Unfortunately, my mother passed away the week after. Hence a belated update on the questions asked. Give me time as the week included the MCAI OSCE/SOE as well as revision courses for both of the exams, providing valuable topics for trainees to read.
CAI
FCAI Written Exam 28/2/18 /
I couldn't remember all of the topics that came out, but here goes what I do remember:
SAQ's (10 questions in 3 hours):
sedation spectrum, mida, dissociative sedation, mac safety
iabp mechanism, effects, indications, contra
abd hypertension, acs, measurement, effects, management
smoking, bronchospasm
pe, helllp, anesthesia and o&g management
acute and chronic pain, effects of pain, opioid sparing, hyperalgesia and tolerance
principles and benefits of daycare surgery
RA and effects of steroids, DMARDS, anesthesia
sab effects layers contraindications
SBA's (50 questions in 1 hour 40 minutes):
Noac
Fat emb syndrome
Afe
Peripheral nerve injury
Management of severe mr
Das extubation
Sci
Sympathetic hyperreflexia
Preop anemia
Hyper cl met acidosis
Atls
Hypoxia on vent
Cyanotic heart disease, r to left shunt management
Neonatal hypoxia w cvs problem
Tbi
Anesthesia for stroke (embo)
Management of anti-hpt/dm
Trigeminal neuralgia
Dental trauma
Sepsis
Sedation spectrum
Complications of robotic surgery (prostate)
Eye op w coad, warfarin
Ra for tka (don’t think i got this one right)
Phrenic nerve block post bp block
Rln injury post thyroidectomy
Cancer pain management
Svt management (algorithm)
2 poisoning q’s: 1 on beta blocker, another tca (I think)
Daycare surgery discharge criteria
True/False MCQ's (30 stems with 5 subparts each in 1 hour):
Air embo diagnosis
Dlt absolute indications
Lvedp, stroke work, coronary perfusion
Ptc
Diathermy
Adverse drug reactions and allergies
Trisomy 21 airway
Latex allergy
Thermodilution accuracy
Nsaids
Peds aps, morphine pk in peds
Bp anatomy
Sensory supply of ll
Hap def and bacteriology
Caudal anat and block
Herpetic neuralgia
Neuropathic pain syndromes of head
Pcm od
Apgar score
Stellate ganglion block
Massive transfusion
Pac’s and pcwp’s (location misinterpretation)
Peribulbar block
Hypothermia complications
Enteral nutrition
High altitude sickness
Loop recorders
Changes to the cvs post heart lung transplantation
Ppo values post lobectomy
I'll talk about how I did in another later post. There's enough topics here to cover a year of continuous reading.