MAC & Blood:Gas Coefficients: Volatile Anaesthetic Pharmacology
Today we're covering more volatiles, thinking a bit more about the defining characteristics of volatiles and exploring MAC, Minimum alveolar concentration. Including MAC BAR and MAC Awake - and what y...
3 Nov 202422min
Michaelis-Menten Kinetics: Zero-Order Fun for the FRCA Primary
The whirlwind that is enzyme kinetics in the human body for the FRCA primary exam, Enjoy! Show Notes @: https://gasgasgas.uk/michaelis-menten-enzyme-kinetics/ =========================================...
25 Okt 202415min
Atracurium: Benzylisoquinolinium NMB for Anaesthesia
FRCA Primary Podcast looking at the properties of Atracurium, further introduction to the action of neuromuscular blocking agents and that all important exam structure! Shownotes @ : https://gasgasgas...
17 Okt 202418min
Thiopentone: Barbiturate Anaesthesia, does it still have a place?
Talking Thiopentone, the bits needed for the exam and the practical bits of when it might get used (rarely, unless the boss happens to be from the 1940's) or you're doing obstetrics. Shownotes @: http...
11 Okt 202421min
Gas Gas Gas - Compartmentalised Volatiles and a brief jaunt with Sevoflurane
This episode explores how volatile anaesthetics behave and affect patients. Chiefly thinking about how the compartments in a breathing circuit and patient interplay to achieve depth / maintain anaesth...
27 Sep 202432min
Hepatic Clearance: A key principle in anaesthesia
This primary FRCA podcast episode introduces clearance and then descends into bedlam trying to think about how the liver really clears drugs on a kinetics level. Shownotes @: https://gasgasgas.uk/hepa...
10 Sep 202418min
pKa in Anaesthesia: Ionisation & Drug Behaviour for the FRCA Primary
We're talking pKa and all the delightful brain strain associated (or disassociated!) from it pKa is a concept which is critical to how drugs cross membranes to their respective active sites. Shownotes...
5 Sep 202413min
Volume of Distribution (Vd): Pharmacokinetics for FRCA Exam
This Primary FRCA Podcast episode talks up Volume of distribution, A pharmacological concept used as an introduction to compartmentalising humans into a variety of volumes in order to think about how ...
22 Aug 202417min
