FRCA Notes


General Topics in PoM

This sections covers an array of perioperative topics in which the curriculum mandates we are learned.

They are somewhat categorised into the familiar pre-, intra- and post-operative motif.

There was a CRQ from 2024 on TIVA & sustainability, and there were old SAQs on TIVA (2018) and prehabilitation (2019).


  • Pre-operative
    • Prehabilitation
    • Scoring systems in anaesthesia
    • Non-anaesthetic scoring systems (in brief)

  • Intra-operative

  • Post-operative
    • Enhanced recovery programmes
    • Environmental concerns in anaesthesia