Thank you for booking onto the Anaesthesia in Developing Countries Course, 2014.
In order to make the week as useful as possible, we would like to evaluate various aspects of the course including what factual content is effectively conveyed and useful to delegates.
To this end we would be most grateful if you could now complete the following 5 groups of multiple-choice questions which relate to course content, as the final part of your booking process. Please answer each with either T for true or F for false. The results will be anonymised and used to guide course delivery and will not affect your place on the course. We are interested in the knowledge you have before coming on the course rather than in individual scores. Once completed please return, within two weeks by email to events@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
1A Ketamine does not cross the placenta
1B The oral inactivated cholera vaccine offers partial protection against enterotoxigenic
E. coli diarrhoea
1C For the average adult, using a metre of input tubing and oxygen at 2L/min into a drawover circuit will generate an FiO2 of approximately 0.7
1D Ether is flammable but not explosive in oxygen
1E Ketamine has no active metabolites
2A The expiratory valve on an Oxford Inflating Bellows should be disabled when the
Heidbrink valve is used at the patient end
2B The intra-muscular anaesthetic induction dose of ketamine is 5-10 mg/kg
2C Suitable valves for the patient end of a drawover circuit include the Ruben, Laerdal and Ambu E2 valves
2D Ketamine doses should be reduced in children under 15y
2E Halothane can be used in an EMO (ether) vaporiser
3A The WHO standard for oxygen concentrators includes the requirements for them to work up to 40 degrees Centigrade and 100% relative humidity
3B A leak in a drawover system will cause dilution of volatile agent delivered to the patient
3C External filters on most oxygen concentrators should not be removed
3D The Oxford Miniature Vaporiser can be used in plenum or drawover mode
3E Psychological difficulty on returning home from aid work is uncommon (<10% within 6 months)
4A Temperature compensation with a Goldman vaporiser is better than that with an
Oxford Miniature Vaporiser
4B The complications of malaria in pregnancy include intra-uterine growth retardation and pre-term labour
4C The OMV can be cleaned using methylated spirits
4D The most common causes of maternal mortality world-wide (in no particular order) are hypertensive disease, cardiac disease and thromboembolism
4E The MAC of halothane is 1.1
5A Worldwide (all countries) the most common causes of mortality are ischaemic heart disease, stroke and lower respiratory infections
5B When using intra-muscular magnesium for control of eclampsia, in the absence of renal failure, dose interval should be 2 hourly
5C Ketamine is associated with increased salivation
5D The following agents are effective disinfectants: chlorine 0.1% solution, 6% hydrogen peroxide, 4% glutaraldehyde
5E If a standard course of stand-by emergency treatment (SBET) for malaria is taken, antimalarial prophylaxis should be resumed one week post-SBET.