Anesthesiology Examination -

“When you’re the only physician in the room during a crisis, there is no one to call,” says Dr. Ellen Voss, a former oral board examiner. “The public trusts that the anesthesiologist keeping their mother alive during a Whipple procedure has been tested not just on knowledge, but on grace under pressure. That’s what the exam tries to measure. Imperfectly, yes. But earnestly.”

You describe your pre-op assessment. Airway? Mallampati class II. Labs? Not needed. Plan? LMA, propofol, maybe a femoral nerve block. anesthesiology examination

“You induce. The LMA doesn’t seat. You try twice. Now the SpO2 is 88%. The patient is desaturating. What next?” “When you’re the only physician in the room