Recommended texts
Candidates are advised that all examination questions are based on information contained in the recommended texts.
Please note that the most recent version of each of the following texts is the recommended text.
General Text: Physiology and Pharmacology
Miller’s Anesthesia / ed. by R D Miller – 7th ed - New York : Churchill Livingstone, 2009 617.96 MIL REF
Oh's Intensive Care Manual / ed by A D Bersten, N Soni and T E Oh - 6th ed : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009. 616.028 OHS
Clinical Pain Management : Acute Pain / ed by D J Rowbotham and P E Macintyre – 2nd ed - London : Arnold, 2008. 616.0472 CLI
Acute Pain Management : Scientific Evidence / Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Pain Medicine – 3rd ed – [Canberra] : NHMRC, 2010 
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Foundations of anesthesia : basic sciences for clinical practice / Hemmings, Hugh C [ed]; Hopkins, Philip M [ed]. – 2nd ed -- Philadelphia: Mosby Elsevier, 2006. (Book) 617.96 FOU
General Physiology
Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology / ed by J E Hall - 12th ed - Philadelphia : Elsevier-Saunders, 2011. 612 GUY
Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology / ed by K E Barrett, et al – 23rd ed – New York : McGraw-Hill Medical Books, 2010. 612 GAN (also available electronically)
Lecture Notes : Human Physiology / ed by O H Petersen - 5th ed - Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, 2007. 612 LEC
Principles of Physiology for the Anaesthetist / I Power & P Kam – 2nd ed - London : Arnold, 2008. 612 POW
Respiratory
Respiratory Physiology : the Essentials / J B West – 8th ed - Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008. 612.2 WES
Nunn's Applied Respiratory Physiology / A B Lumb - 7th ed - Edinburgh : Churchill-Livingstone Elsevier, 2010. 612.2 LUM
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular Physiology / R M Berne and A J Pappano - 9th ed - St Louis : Mosby, 2007. 612.1 LEV
Renal physiology
Vander's Renal Physiology / D C Eaton and J P Pooler – 7th ed - New York : McGraw-Hill, 2009. 612.488 VAN
Clinical Measurement
Basic Physics and Measurement in Anaesthesia / P D Davis and G N C Kenny - 5th ed - Edinburgh : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002. 530.024617 DAV
Clinical Monitoring : Practical Applications for Anesthesia and Critical Care / ed by C L Lake, R L Hines and C D Blitt - Philadelphia : WB Saunders, 2001. 617.96 CLI
General Pharmacology
Rang and Dale’s Pharmacology / H P Rang, M M Dale, J M Ritter and R J Flower - 6th ed - Edinburgh : Churchill-Livingstone, 2007. 615.1 RAN
Goodman and Gilman's the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics / ed by L L Brunton,– 12th ed - New York : McGraw-Hill, 2011. 615.7 GOO (also available electronically)
Basic and Clinical Pharmacology / ed by B G Katzung – 11th ed – New York : McGraw-Hill, 2009. 615.1 BAS (also available electronically)
Anaesthetic Pharmacology
Pharmacology and Physiology in Anesthetic Practice / R K Stoelting and S C Hillier – 4th ed - Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2006. 615.781 STO
Cousins and Bridenbaugh’s Neural blockade : in Clinical Anaesthesia and Management of Pain / M J Cousins and P O Bridenbaugh – 4th ed - Philadelphia : Lippincott, 2009. 617.966 COU
Anesthetic Pharmacology : Basic principles and clinical practice / ed by A S Evers, M Maze and E D Kharasch – 2nd ed - New York : Churchill-Livingstone, 2011. 615.781 ANE
MacPherson, R. D. Pharmaceutics for the anaesthetist. Anaesthesia, 2001, 56 (10), 965-979
Statistics
Basic and Clinical Biostatistics / B Dawson and R G Trapp – 4th ed – New York : McGraw-Hill, 2004. 574.015195 DAW
Statistical methods for anaesthesia and intensive care / P S Myles and T Gin - Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001. 574.015195 MYL
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