Basic Anaesthetic Drugs

This workbook is to be used to support the basic anaesthetic drugs taught session. The purpose of this booklet is to enable you to develop the basic knowledge that you will have already gained.
You can complete this workbook at your own pace on your first anaesthetic placement.
You will need to gain an understanding relating to:
•	What a general anaesthetic (GA) is
•	What are the components of a GA
•	Some of the drugs commonly used to achieve general anaesthesia

1.	Give a definition of general anaesthesia:

2.	What are the 3 components of the ‘triad of anaesthesia’?
     a)
     b)
     c)

       3. Describe why each component is necessary
     a)
     b)
     c)

4.	Suggest a situation when only two of the components may be used?

5.	What are the 4 stages of anaesthesia? Describe what each stage means.
     a)
     b)
     c)
     d)

6.	Name four  classifications of drugs that are used to induce and maintain anaesthesia
     a)
     b)
     c)
     d)

      7. For each of the drugs named below, write down 3 important things you have learnt about that drug
   Induction Agents  

Sodium thiopental
Ketamine
Etomidate

Depolarising muscle relaxant

Non Depolarising muscle relaxants:
Atracurium
Mivacurium
Rocuronium

Narcotics

Fentanyl
Alfentanil
Diamorphine
Remifentanil

Inhalation agents
Sevoflurane
Isoflurane
Desflurane