DrNB Critical Care Medicine: Examination Guide Series Part 1C

DrNB Critical Care Medicine: Examination Guide Series

Part 1C — Perioperative Care, Ethics, Quality and Research

Theory Papers 3 & 4

Papers 3 and 4 produce the widest score spread in the DrNB CCM examination — and for a predictable reason. They test research methodology, ethics, NABH accreditation standards, and Indian medico-legal frameworks: domains most training programmes never teach formally, absorbed informally rather than studied systematically the way physiology and organ-system topics are. This book closes that gap, written to the exact depth the examiners reward.

What’s inside

• Every chapter written to examination depth — the specific facts, legal provisions, trial references, model answers, and examiner pearls needed to convert broad clinical familiarity into marks
• Perioperative and transplant critical care, and the management of special populations
• ICU ethics and end-of-life decision-making
• Quality and governance, including NABH accreditation standards
• Research methodology and biostatistics
• Medico-legal frameworks in Indian critical care practice
• Focused attention on the short-note questions, where targeted preparation adds the most marks
• Model essay and short-note answers to study, close the book, rewrite, and compare — turning familiarity into examination-ready recall

Also useful for FNB Critical Care Medicine trainees, EDIC and NEET SS CCM aspirants, and practising intensivists wanting a structured, examiner-focused reference on ethics, quality, and research.

This is Part 1C of a multi-volume DrNB Critical Care Medicine Examination Guide Series — following Part 1A (Basic Sciences) and Part 1B (Organ System Critical Care), and continuing through long-case, practical skills, and viva voce preparation.

Disclaimer: An independent educational resource for exam preparation, not affiliated with NBEMS. Clinical decisions must be based on qualified medical judgment.

By Dr. Gunadhar Padhi — Chief Intensivist, HN Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai; MD, IDCCM, FCCCM, ECMO (Paris); author of the DrNB Critical Care Medicine Examination Guide Series.