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, James Kim, Hazem Hamdan
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