Anaesthesia for NEET PG

Anaesthesia is a small subject focused on drugs, airway, regional techniques and complications. It rewards recalling specific agents and their effects.

What Anaesthesia covers

  • Preoperative assessment
  • Intravenous and inhalational agents
  • Muscle relaxants
  • Local and regional anaesthesia
  • Airway management
  • Complications and emergencies
  • Basic resuscitation

A study map from the standard curriculum. Check the official bulletin for the authoritative topic list.

How to study it

  1. 1

    Make a table of each agent, its key advantage and its main side effect.

  2. 2

    Learn airway assessment scores and when each applies.

  3. 3

    Know the treatment of anaesthetic emergencies as steps.

Where students slip

  • Mixing up depolarising and non-depolarising drugs.
  • Confusing MAC with potency direction.

Where the Anaesthesia practice questions concentrate

Our 964 worked Anaesthesia questions fall into these areas, largest first. This shows what our practice set emphasises. It is not a prediction of the exam's weightage.

  • Airway management 56
  • Critical care 56
  • Preoperative assessment 55
  • Intravenous and inhalational agents 39
  • Regional anaesthesia 37
  • Complications and emergencies 36
  • Monitoring 33
  • Muscle relaxants 31
  • Local and regional anaesthesia 26
  • Complications 24
  • Special anaesthesia 24
  • Pain 21

Browse all Anaesthesia worked questions

Four quick-revision cards

  • Treatment of malignant hyperthermia?

    Dantrolene (blocks ryanodine receptor); stop triggers, 100% O₂, cooling.

  • Which induction agent raises heart rate and BP?

    Ketamine, through sympathetic stimulation.

  • Most cardiotoxic local anaesthetic and its rescue?

    Bupivacaine; intravenous lipid emulsion.

  • Mallampati classes?

    I: soft palate, uvula, pillars. II: soft palate and uvula. III: soft palate and base of uvula. IV: hard palate only.

All Anaesthesia flashcards · 18 Anaesthesia mnemonics

Try a Anaesthesia question

A sample item with the reasoning behind every option. Nothing here is recorded.

Anaesthesia · Intravenous anaesthetics

Sample item

Which intravenous anaesthetic agent typically increases heart rate and blood pressure?

Common questions

How do I revise anaesthesia?

Drug tables and an emergency checklist, repeated at intervals.

Is it a high-yield subject?

It is small, but compact revision pays off.