Monash Medical Centre – Online Collaborative teaching

Collaborative Teaching
Please register for the Monash Health Primary Education Network Online Tutorial Sessions with the link below. These hour-long tutorials are based around unpacking your responses to pre-determined SAQs on defined syllabus topics with either a Consultant Intensivist, or a Senior Trainee recently successful at the Primary Examination. Some sessions may include an unseen SAQ written to time during the session. The topic, facilitator, and their contact details are given below.
Topic: Equipment and procedures
Facilitator: Neil Glassford
Contact Email: neil.glassford2@monashhealth.org

SAQs
1. Compare and contrast external ventricular drains and intraparenchymal fibreoptic pressure monitors.
2. Describe how the values for PaO2, PaCO2, pH and bicarbonate are determined on a blood gas sample.
3. Explain the following components of an electrocardiogram (ECG) machine; electrodes, leads, amplifiers and filters. (70% of Marks) Outline methods employed to reduce artefact. (30% of Marks)
4. Describe the methods of temperature measurement.
5. Outline the principles underlying pulse oximetry. ( 80% of marks) Briefly describe the effect of an elevated level of the following upon pulse oximetry values. (20% of marks) a) Carboxyhaemaglobin b) Methaemaglobin