The NEET SS 2024 Diploma in Anaesthesiology Question Paper 3 was conducted as part of the national-level super speciality entrance examination for admissions into DM and MCh programmes. This paper evaluates advanced understanding of general anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia, airway management, critical care, perioperative medicine, pain management, emergencies, and evidence-based clinical decision-making. Candidates were required to attempt 100 questions in 150 minutes, with a total of 400 marks. Each correct answer carries 4 marks, while 1 mark is deducted for every incorrect response as per the NEET SS negative marking scheme.

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Question 1:

a) Role of Ultrasonography (USG) in airway assessment. [5]


Question 1:

b) Discuss use of vasopressors in septic shock as per surviving sepsis campaign guidelines. [5]


Question 2:

a) Define brain death. Enumerate the steps to diagnose brain death. [2+4]


Question 2:

b) Anaesthetic management of brain dead for organ retrieval. [4]


Question 3:

a) Different roles of Magnesium in Anaesthesiology. [5]


Question 3:

b) Segmental spinal anaesthesia. [5]


Question 4:

a) Discuss accidental awareness during anaesthesia, and its prevention. [5]


Question 4:

b) Advantages and disadvantages of colloids intravenous (IV) fluids. [5]


Question 5:

a) Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in a hypothermic patient in cardiac arrest. [5]


Question 5:

b) Etomidate. [5]


Question 6:

a) Opioid free anaesthesia. [5]


Question 6:

b) Enumerate the causes and discuss the management of a patient in Type I respiratory failure. [2+3]


Question 7:

Enumerate modalities available for pain relief during labor. How will you conduct labor analgesia for a 32-year-old female in true labor, with 2 cm os dilation and 50% effacement of cervix, who has presented to the labor room and demands analgesia? Enumerate possible complications. [3+5+2]


Question 8:

Classify supraglottic airway devices (SADs). What are the modifications done in 3rd generation SADs? Enumerate the possible complications associated with use of SADs. [3+4+3]


Question 9:

a) WHO ladder for pain management. [5]


Question 9:

b) Drug dose modification in obese patients. [5]