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Transplant Anaesthesia — FNB reading list.

What a two-year FNB fellow in Transplant Anaesthesia reads, and what each title is for.

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7Titles listed
4Read cover to cover
2 yrsFellowship length
400Marks in the exit exam
The fellowship

Transplant Anaesthesia at a glance

Anaesthesia and peri-operative management for liver, kidney and other solid-organ transplantation.

DisciplineAnaesthesia, Pain and Critical Care
Length2 years, full-time at an NBEMS-accredited hospital
Entered fromDNB/MD Anaesthesia (Anaesthesiology)
EntranceFET, the NBEMS Fellowship Entrance Test — 100 questions in 105 minutes, Part-A from the feeder specialty and Part-B from this fellowship.
How this list is used

Reading for Transplant Anaesthesia

Liver transplant dominates the Indian transplant-anaesthesia fellowship, so Wagener's volume is the text people actually finish, usually while learning coagulation management and viscoelastic testing on live cases. Subramaniam and Sakai covers the other organs — kidney, pancreas, heart, lung — and is the book fellows read before a rotation rather than during it. Kaplan is kept for the thoracic organ transplant and mechanical support chapters, and the surgical volume by Busuttil and Klintmalm is borrowed from the transplant surgery library when a fellow needs to understand graft anatomy, piggyback technique or living-donor considerations before a case. Reading tends to be organ-block driven rather than front-to-back.

Titles are tagged core reading — the ones fellows finish — or reference, the ones they look things up in. Editions are given where the current edition is what you want to buy.

  1. Liver Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicinecore readingGebhard Wagener (ed.) · Springer · 2nd edition (2018)The main read of the fellowship, used for reperfusion physiology, coagulation and viscoelastic testing, and post-transplant ICU care.
  2. Anesthesia and Perioperative Care for Organ Transplantationcore readingKathirvel Subramaniam, Tetsuro Sakai (eds.) · Springer · 1st edition (2017)Covers kidney, pancreas, heart and lung transplantation, and is the book read before starting each non-liver organ rotation.
  3. Oxford Textbook of Transplant Anaesthesia and Critical Carecore readingErnesto A. Pretto Jr, Gianni Biancofiore, Andre DeWolf (eds.) · Oxford University Press · 1st editionUsed for donor management, organ preservation and the immunology and immunosuppression chapters that come up in vivas.
  4. Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesiacore readingJoel A. Kaplan (ed.) · Elsevier · 8th editionThe reference for thoracic organ transplantation, mechanical circulatory support and intraoperative TOE.
  5. Transplantation of the LiverreferenceRonald W. Busuttil, Goran B. Klintmalm (eds.) · Elsevier · 3rd editionBorrowed from the surgical side to understand graft anatomy, living-donor hepatectomy and the surgical steps behind each haemodynamic phase.
  6. Anesthesia for Hepatico-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgery and TransplantationreferenceZoka Milan, Chula Goonasekera (eds.) · Springer · 1st editionPractical shorter volume used for the non-transplant HPB lists that fill most of the routine operating week.
  7. Miller's AnesthesiareferenceMichael A. Gropper, Lars I. Eriksson, Lee A. Fleisher, Neal H. Cohen, Kate Leslie, Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju (eds.) · Elsevier · 10th editionKept for the hepatic and renal physiology, pharmacokinetics and transfusion chapters that the transplant texts build on.

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The exit examination

What you are reading towards

The exit examination is the FEE - Fellowship Exit Examination, held after completion of the fellowship training. Theory: one paper of 100 marks (10 questions of 10 marks each) of three hours' duration. Practical: 300 marks, comprising clinical examination and viva voce. A candidate must obtain a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate across theory and practical (200 of 400) to qualify, with the theory paper itself to be passed at 50/100. Trainees must also appear in the formative assessment during training. Successful candidates are awarded the FNB (or FNB-PD) at the annual NBEMS convocation.

How FNB entry and the FEE work, in full ›

Anaesthesia, Pain and Critical Care

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Frequently asked

FNB Transplant Anaesthesia — questions

Which books do FNB Transplant Anaesthesia fellows read?

The 7 titles on this page, of which 4 are read cover to cover and the rest are kept as references. Most fellows own two or three and use the department copy for the others.

How long is the FNB in Transplant Anaesthesia?

2 years, full-time at an NBEMS-accredited hospital, followed by the Fellowship Exit Examination.

Which specialty do you enter FNB Transplant Anaesthesia from?

DNB/MD Anaesthesia (Anaesthesiology)

How is the FNB exit examination marked?

One theory paper of 100 marks with ten questions of ten marks each, and a 300-mark practical of clinical examination and viva. A candidate needs 50 per cent in aggregate across the two.

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