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 helping a great deal with 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 (3), Jin Sern Toh (3), Wei Ling Law (2), Simon Leckenby (2), Pat Stapleton (2), Pooja Agrawal (2), Tim Basevi, Craig Beaman, Tim Hall, Pat Lloyd-Donald, Christine Ma, Thomas Pearson
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