# Anaesthetic Interview

> 340 CT1 anaesthetic interview questions with model answers across the clinical judgement and general interview stations. £97.

## Pages

- [Preparation guide](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/The-Interview): How to prepare, station by station
- [Free sample questions](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/CT1-Anaesthetics-Sample-Questions): Try real questions before buying
- [Pricing and registration](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/Question-Bank/CT1-Register): Access options, prices and FAQs
- [Contact](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/Contact-Us): Support and general enquiries
- [Interview Overview](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/The-CT1-Anaesthetic-Interview/Interview-Overview): CT1 anaesthetics interview info
- [Clinical Station](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/The-CT1-Anaesthetic-Interview/Clinical-Station): CT1 anaesthetics interview info
- [General Interview](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/The-CT1-Anaesthetic-Interview/General-Interview-Station): CT1 anaesthetics interview info
- [The MSRA](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/The-CT1-Anaesthetic-Interview/MSRA): CT1 anaesthetics interview info
- [Application Overview](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/The-CT1-Anaesthetic-Interview/Application-Overview): CT1 anaesthetics interview info

## Anaesthetics Knowledge Library

- [ABCDE for the Anaesthetic CT1: What 'Stabilise, then Call' Means in Practice](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/abcde-for-the-anaesthetic-ct1): Stabilise, then call means treating each life-threatening ABCDE problem as you find it while help is already on its way: the Resuscitation C
- [Acute Asthma: BTS/SIGN Severity and Escalation](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/acute-asthma-severity-and-escalation): Life-threatening asthma is an SpO2 below 92 per cent plus any one of altered conscious level, exhaustion, arrhythmia, hypotension, cyanosis,
- [Acute Coronary Syndrome and Chest Pain](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/acute-coronary-syndrome-chest-pain): Every suspected acute coronary syndrome gets a single 300 mg loading dose of aspirin as soon as possible; a STEMI presenting within 12 hours
- [Acute Kidney Injury](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/acute-kidney-injury): AKI is a creatinine rise of 26 micromol/L or more in 48 hours, a rise of 50% or more in 7 days, or urine output under 0.5 ml/kg/hour for ove
- [Anaphylaxis on the Ward](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/anaphylaxis-on-the-ward): Ward anaphylaxis is treated with intramuscular adrenaline 500 micrograms into the anterolateral thigh, repeated after 5 minutes if there is 
- [Audit vs Research vs QI in Anaesthetics](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/audit-vs-research-vs-qi-anaesthetics): Audit measures practice against an existing standard, research generates new knowledge where none exists, and quality improvement changes a 
- [COPD Exacerbation and Controlled Oxygen](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/copd-exacerbation-controlled-oxygen): In a COPD exacerbation, give oxygen to an SpO2 of 88 to 92 per cent until the blood gas is back, nebulise with air if the patient is hyperca
- [CT1 vs ACCS: Choosing and Explaining Your Route](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/ct1-vs-accs-choosing-and-explaining-your-route): Core anaesthetics is three indicative years of Stage 1 at CT1 to CT3, while ACCS anaesthetics is a four-year programme with two years of six
- [Calcium: Hypercalcaemia and Hypocalcaemia](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/hypercalcaemia-and-hypocalcaemia): Adjusted calcium above 3.5 mmol/L needs urgent correction with 4 to 6 litres of 0.9% saline over 24 hours and then an intravenous bisphospho
- [Commitment to Anaesthetics: The Evidence the Panel Credits](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/commitment-to-anaesthetics-the-evidence-the-panel-credits): ANRO's Commitment to Specialty descriptor names what it credits: undergraduate placements in anaesthesia or intensive care, taster sessions,
- [Consent and Capacity for Anaesthesia: What You Must Discuss and When](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/consent-and-capacity-for-anaesthesia): Consent for anaesthesia is a conversation about material risks, held with enough time to consider them — and Montgomery makes what matters t
- [Diabetic Ketoacidosis](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/diabetic-ketoacidosis): DKA is glucose above 11 mmol/L or known diabetes, ketones above 3 mmol/L, and venous pH below 7.3 or bicarbonate below 15 mmol/L. Fluid firs
- [Lower Respiratory Tract Infection and CURB-65](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/lower-respiratory-tract-infection-curb65): CURB-65 scores one point each for confusion, urea over 7 mmol/L, respiratory rate 30 or more, systolic blood pressure under 90 or diastolic 
- [Meningitis: Recognition and the First Hour](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/meningitis-recognition-and-the-first-hour): NICE NG240 asks you to strongly suspect bacterial meningitis when fever, headache, neck stiffness and altered consciousness or cognition are
- [New Atrial Fibrillation](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/new-atrial-fibrillation): New-onset atrial fibrillation with life-threatening haemodynamic instability gets emergency electrical cardioversion without waiting for ant
- [Obstetric Anaesthesia Emergencies: Collapse on the Labour Ward](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/obstetric-collapse-on-the-labour-ward): A collapsed woman on the labour ward is managed as a cardiac arrest with three pregnancy changes: declare 'obstetric cardiac arrest', displa
- [Oxygen Therapy, CPAP and When to Intubate: Type 1 vs Type 2 Failure](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/oxygen-therapy-cpap-and-when-to-intubate): Type 1 respiratory failure is a PaO2 below 8 kPa with a normal or low PaCO2 and type 2 is a PaCO2 above 6.1 kPa whatever the saturation; the
- [Perioperative Anaphylaxis: Recognition, Adrenaline and What NAP6 Changed](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/perioperative-anaphylaxis): Suspect anaphylaxis when cardiovascular collapse, bronchospasm or a rash appears after induction; give IV adrenaline 50 micrograms and repea
- [Pneumothorax: the BTS 2023 Pathway](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/pneumothorax-bts-2023-pathway): The BTS 2023 pneumothorax pathway asks three questions in order: is the patient symptomatic, do they have a high-risk characteristic (haemod
- [Potassium: Hyperkalaemia and Hypokalaemia](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/hyperkalaemia-and-hypokalaemia): Hyperkalaemia is mild at 5.5 to 5.9, moderate at 6.0 to 6.4 and severe at 6.5 mmol/L or above. With ECG changes give 30 ml of 10% calcium gl
- [Pre-operative Assessment and ASA Grading](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/preoperative-assessment-and-asa-grading): ASA physical status runs from I, a normal healthy patient, to VI, a declared brain-dead organ donor, with E added for emergencies; it descri
- [Rapid Sequence Induction: Indications and the Standard Drugs](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/rapid-sequence-induction): Rapid sequence induction is the technique for a patient at risk of aspiration: preoxygenation with a tight-fitting mask at 10 to 15 L/min fo
- [Reduced Consciousness and the GCS](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/reduced-consciousness-and-the-gcs): The Glasgow Coma Scale runs from 3 to 15 across eye opening, verbal and motor responses, and NICE NG232 defines severe traumatic brain injur
- [Reflective Practice in an Interview Answer](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/reflective-practice-in-an-interview-answer): Reflective Practice is a scored domain at the CT1 anaesthetics interview, and ANRO's descriptor asks for a real example, what you did with f
- [Sepsis: the Sepsis Six and Source Control](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/sepsis-six-and-source-control): NICE NG51 was replaced in November 2025 by NG253 for people aged 16 or over, which grades risk on NEWS2, gives broad-spectrum intravenous an
- [Shock: Recognition and Management by Type](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/shock-recognition-and-management-by-type): Shock is inadequate tissue perfusion, and the Resuscitation Council UK ABCDE guidance says to consider hypovolaemia the primary cause in alm
- [Sodium: Hyponatraemia and Safe Correction](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/hyponatraemia-safe-correction): Treat symptoms, not the number: severe or moderately severe symptoms get 150 ml of 3% saline over 20 minutes, repeated to a 5 mmol/L rise in
- [Stroke and the FAST Pathway](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/stroke-and-the-fast-pathway): NICE NG128 asks for a validated tool such as FAST outside hospital, hypoglycaemia excluded, and immediate non-enhanced CT when thrombolysis 
- [Structuring a Spoken Answer for the Anaesthetics Interview](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/structuring-a-spoken-answer): A spoken clinical judgement answer at the CT1 anaesthetics interview has four moves in order: a one-sentence headline, an A to E assessment 
- [The Crash Call: ALS 2021 in the Anaesthetic Context](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/the-crash-call-als): At a crash call the Resuscitation Council UK adult ALS guideline, republished in October 2025 with no major changes from 2021, gives adrenal
- [The Deteriorating Patient in Recovery: Assessment, Causes and Escalation](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/the-deteriorating-patient-in-recovery): Assess A–E at the bedside, and work the short list of things that actually go wrong in recovery — airway obstruction, hypoventilation from o
- [The Sick Child: Recognition and Paediatric Differences](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/the-sick-child-recognition-and-paediatric-differences): A sick child is recognised by colour, activity, breathing and circulation before any single number, graded red, amber or green by NICE NG143
- [The Trauma Call: The Anaesthetist's Role](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/the-trauma-call-the-anaesthetists-role): At a trauma call the anaesthetist owns the airway and shares the resuscitation, and the Royal College of Anaesthetists says the role extends
- [The Unanticipated Difficult Airway: The DAS Plans and Calling It](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/unanticipated-difficult-airway): Work the DAS plans in order — laryngoscopy, supraglottic device, face mask, then front-of-neck access — and declare each failure out loud ra
- [Upper GI Bleeding](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/upper-gi-bleeding): Resuscitate, score with Blatchford at first assessment and full Rockall after endoscopy, and get the scope: immediately after resuscitation 
- [VTE and Pulmonary Embolism](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/vte-and-pulmonary-embolism): Use the two-level Wells score: more than 4 points is PE likely and goes straight to CTPA, 4 or less gets a D-dimer within 4 hours, and inter
- [Working Under Pressure: The Human Factors Answer](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/knowledge/working-under-pressure-the-human-factors-answer): Working Under Pressure is a named domain worth 5 marks per assessor at the CT1 anaesthetics interview, and ANRO's own descriptor scores calm

## Blog (application-cycle news and preparation guides)

- [Structuring a Spoken Answer for the Anaesthetics Interview 2027](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/blog/structuring-a-spoken-answer-anaesthetics-interview-2027): Two assessors mark each 15-minute station on three domains and a global rating, so a spoken answer needs a shape they can score in real time
- [Anaesthetics CT1 Interview Resources Compared 2027](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/blog/anaesthetics-ct1-interview-resources-compared-2027): Eight anaesthetics CT1 and ACCS interview resources rated 1 to 5 on seven criteria, prices checked 10 September 2026: Anaesthetic Interview 
- [CT1 Anaesthetics vs ACCS Anaesthetics 2027: Which to Apply For](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/blog/ct1-anaesthetics-vs-accs-anaesthetics-2027-which-to-apply-for): Core anaesthetics is an indicative three years (CT1 to CT3); ACCS Anaesthetics is four, with two ACCS years across emergency medicine, acute
- [The General Interview Station 2027: Commitment, Communication and Teamwork](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/blog/general-interview-station-2027-commitment-communication-teamwork): The 15-minute general station carries 50 of the anaesthetics CT1 interview's 100 marks across communication, commitment to specialty and tea
- [MSRA for Anaesthetics 2027: the 15% Weighting](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/blog/msra-for-anaesthetics-2027-the-15-percent-weighting): For anaesthetics CT1 the MSRA is 15% of your selection score, 7.5% from Professional Dilemmas and 7.5% from Clinical Problem Solving, with t
- [The Clinical Judgement Station 2027: How It Is Marked, with a Worked Scenario](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/blog/clinical-judgement-station-2027-how-it-is-marked-worked-scenario): Fifteen minutes after five minutes of reading, marked out of 50 by two assessors across clinical judgement and decision making, reflective p
- [CT1 Anaesthetics Application 2027: Dates, Person Specification and the Ratio](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/blog/ct1-anaesthetics-application-2027-dates-person-specification-ratio): Applications open 10am on 22 October 2026 and close 4pm on 19 November 2026, interviews fall between 11 January and 2 April 2027, and initia
- [Anaesthetics CT1 and ACCS Interview 2027: Format, Scoring and the Veto Rule](https://www.anaestheticinterview.com/blog/anaesthetics-ct1-accs-interview-2027-format-scoring-veto-rule): Two 15-minute online stations, two assessors each, 50 marks a station and 100 in total, worth 85% of your selection score next to the MSRA's

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