About Ketamine Nightmares
What is it?
- It’s mainly a bank of my answers to the Australian Anaesthesia Primary Exam SAQs
- Anaesthesia trainees in other countries may benefit
- Trainees in other critical care disciplines may benefit
Why the name?
- It’s a tip-of-the-hat to Propofol Dreams
- It’s à propos, as any current or former victim of the primary exam will attest
Acknowledgements:
I would like to thank:
- My wife Maria for her patience and wisdom
- My mother (Margaret) and father (Harry) for all that I am
- My colleague Alexander Clarke for building the website
- My de facto editors-in-chief - Kieran Bates and Maggie Forbes
- My study companions Perdita Gregory, Kevin Murphy, Lauren Smith and Tim Williams and Harsh Dubey
- The Departments of Anaesthesia at Box Hill Hospital and St. Vincent’s Hospital
- The convenors of the Primary Exam Course at the Waikato Hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand – Aidan O’Donnell, James Clark and Jeffrey Hoskins
- All others who have contributed amendments - Emma Paxton, Jin Sern Toh, Wei Ling Law, Simon Leckenby, Pat Stapleton, Pooja Agrawal, Tim Basevi, Craig Beaman, Tim Hall, Pat Lloyd-Donald, Christine Ma, Thomas Pearson, Alec Beresford, Kieran Easter, Emma Walker, Tom Scodellaro, Jessie Wang, Catherine Hampton, Stan Tay, Pranav Varma, Bryan Yip, Jake Barlow, Daniel Gillespie, David Wang
Disclaimers:
- This website is intended as an aid to exam preparation
- It should not be considered gospel truth
- It should not be taken as a guide to the practice of anaesthesia
- It should not be used to inform your own treatment, if that were even possible
- There will be some mistakes as a result of ignorance, fatigue, textbook disparity or fat fingers; if you find one, please let me know
Stuart N Watson
December 2019