This is part of a series been designed to provide medical students with a comprehensive and convenient instrument for self-assessment and review within the basic sciences. Each book contains 600 multiple-choice questions accompanied by an answer, a paragraph-length explanation, and a specific page reference to either a current journal article, a textbook, or both. Study of this self-assessment and review book should help to identify areas of relative weakness; confirm areas of expertise; assess knowledge of the sciences fundamental to anaesthesiology; assess clinical judgement and problem-solving skills; and introduce recent developments in anaesthesiology.

