RECOMMENDED READING LIST FOR CANDIDATES PREPARING FOR THE

EUROPEAN DIPLOMA IN ANAESTHESIOLOGY AND INTENSIVE CARE

PUBLICATION
TITLE AUTHOR/ED PUBLISHER
DATE

Anaesthesia
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care A- Z 4th Edition Yentis, Ip, Hirsch, & Smith Churchill Livingston 2009
Clinical Anesthesia (6th Edition) Barash Cullen, Stoelting, Cahalan & Stock Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins 2009
Clinical Anesthesiology Morgan, Mikhail & Murray McGraw-Hill Medical 2005
Essence of Anesthesia Practice (3rd Edition) Fleisher & Roizen Saunders 2011
Fundamental Principles and Practice of Anaesthesia Hutton, Cooper, James & Butterworth Dunitz 2002
Fundamentals of Anaesthesia Smith, Pinnock & Lin Cambridge University Press 2009
Handbook of Clinical Anaesthesia Pollard Edward Arnold 2011
Millers Anaesthesia (7th Edition) Miller, Eriksson, Fleisher & Wiener-Kronish Churchill Livingstone 2009
A Practical Approach to Cardiac Anesthesia Hensley, Martin & Gravlee Lippincott Williams and Witkins 2007
Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy :A practical Guide Yentis, May & Malhotra Cambridge University Press 2007
Obstetric Anaesthesia Clyburn, Collis &Harris Oxford University Press 2008
Paediatric Anaesthesia Doyle Oxford University Press 2007
Clinical médicine (7th Edition) Kumar & Clark Saunders 2009

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Regional Anaesthesia
Atlas of Image-Guided Intervention in Regional Anesthesia
Rathmell Lippincott Williams and Witkins 2011
and Pain Medicine
Atlas of Interventional Pain management (3rd Edition) Waldman Saunders 2009
Textbook of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Management Hadzic McGraw-Hill Medical 2007
Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Bigeleisen Springhouse Publishing Co 2009
Ultrasound Guidance in Regional Anaesthesia: Principles and
Marhofer Oxford University Press 2010
practical implementation

Physiology
Principles of Physiology for the Anaesthetist Power & Kam Hodder Arnold 2012
Respiratory Physiology: the Essentials West Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2011
Pulmonary Pathophysiology: The Essentials West Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2012
Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology Barret, Barman, Boitano & Brooks McGraw-Hill Medical 2009

Pharmacology
Anesthetic Pharmacology Evers & Maze Cambridge University Press 2011
Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Peck & Hill Cambridge University Press 2011
Pharmacology for anaesthesiologists Fee & Bovill Taylor & Francis 2007

Physics and Clinical Measurement

Basic Physics and measurement in anaesthesia (5th Edition) Davis & Kenny Elsevier Health Sciences 2003
The Physics, Clinical Measurement and Equipment of
Maggie & Tooley Oxford University Press 2011
Anaesthetic Practice

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Intensive Care
Textbook of Critical Care, 6th Edition Vincent, Abraham, Kochanek, Moore & Fink Elsevier 2011

Anaesthetic Equipment
Essentials of Anaesthetic Equipment (3rd Edition) Al-Sheikh & Stacey Elsevier Health Sciences 2007
Wards Anaesthetic Equipment DaveyA. & Diba A. Saunders 2005

Books in French
Echographie en anesthésie régionale périphérique Eisenberg, Gaertner, Clavert & Tubert Arnette Blackwell 2007
Manuel Pratique d’Anesthésie Albrecht, Haberer, Buchser, & Moret Elsevier – Masson 2009

Books in Spanish
Situaciones Clínicas en Anestesia y en Cuidados Intensivos Hernández Martínez Editorial Médica Panamericana 2013

VIVA Orientated
Dr Podcast Scripts for Primary FRCA Leslie, Johnson and Goodwin Cambridge University Press 2011
Physics, Pharmacology and Physiology for Anaesthetists - Key
Cross & Plunkett Cambridge University Press 2008
Concepts for the FRCA
The Anaesthesia Science Viva Book Bricker Cambridge University Press 2008
The Clinical Anaesthesia Viva Book Barker, Mills, Maguire Cambridge University Press 2009
Structured Oral Examination in Clinical Anaesthesia: Practice
Mendonca, Hillermann, James & Kumar TFM Publishing Ltd 2009
Examination Papers

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 MCQ
Short Answer Questions and MCQs in Anaesthesia and
Murphy & Dashfield Hodder Arnold 2004
Intensive Care
QBase Anaesthesia: Volume 6, MCQ Companion to
Fundamentals of Anaesthesia: MCQ Companion to Pinnock, Jones, Maguire & Barker Cambridge University Press 2004
Fundamentals of Anaesthesia

Usefull Websites and Podcasts

www.frcaq.com On-line testing site Over 1500 MCQs
www.frca.co.uk
www.dr-podcast.co.uk

Compiled by
Dr A. Varvinskiy, Department of Anaesthesia, Torbay Hospital, Torquay, UK.
Dr E. Albrecht, Department of Anaesthesia, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dr B. Sweeney, Department of Anaesthesia, Bournemouth General Hospital, UK

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