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Surgery revision checklist for NEET PG, INI-CET & FMGE

Every topic broken into what's actually asked from it. Tick what you've already studied — mark it Shaky if you'd fumble it under exam pressure.

General Surgery

Burns — TBSA and Fluid Resuscitation

4 points

Rule of Nines TBSA — adult vs child body-map trap

Parkland vs Muir-Barclay — fluid volume and colloid choice

Burn depth assessment and inhalation-injury airway

Severe frostbite cold-injury management

Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition

3 points

TPN refeeding syndrome — hypophosphatemia mechanism

Feeding jejunostomy/PEG complication identification

TPN catheter sepsis and high-output fistula nutrition

IV Cannula and Catheter Sizing

3 points

IV cannula colour-coded gauge and flow-rate trap

Foley catheter French scale, balloon and removal difficulty

IV fluid identification from constituent label

IV Cannula Gauge Identification

1 point

Colour-coded IV cannula gauge from image

Laparoscopic Access Instruments

1 point

Veress needle, ports and pneumoperitoneum trocar

Laparoscopy and Perioperative Care

5 points

Pneumoperitoneum physiology, gas embolism and lap-chole urine output

Laparoscopy advantages — delayed electrosurgical burn trap

Daycare surgery admission cause and COVID elective timing

WHO checklist item and intraoperative frozen section

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) principle

Necrotizing Soft-Tissue Infection

1 point

Necrotizing fasciitis vs cellulitis vs gas gangrene

Pressure Sore Staging

1 point

Bedsore grade identification from depth of tissue loss

Retractors, Forceps and Staplers

1 point

Retractor, forceps and colonic-stapler identification

Shock and Resuscitation

4 points

Class 3 haemorrhagic shock — cannula bore for rapid fluids

Neurogenic shock — warm skin and bradycardia trap

Most reliable end-point for fluid resuscitation

Damage-control surgery — lethal triad principle

Skin Graft and Cutting Instruments

1 point

Humby knife for split-thickness graft harvesting

Skin Grafts and Flaps

3 points

Z-plasty — scar-lengthening vs rotation indication

Split vs full-thickness graft — primary/secondary contraction trap

Dog-ear correction technique identification

Surgical Drains Identification

1 point

Closed-suction drain identification (Romovac/Jackson-Pratt)

Surgical Incisions

2 points

Muscle-splitting vs cutting incision identification (Lanz/gridiron)

Preferred incision for diaphragmatic surgery

Surgical Oncology Principles

5 points

Neoadjuvant vs adjuvant chemotherapy timing

Obesity-associated malignancy — the non-associated cancer trap

Melanoma Breslow depth — wide-excision margin trap

Sentinel node mapping — methylene-blue peritumoral injection

Hospitalised hypercalcemia — malignancy as commonest cause

Surgical Positions

1 point

Operative position identification (Lloyd-Davies/Trendelenburg)

Sutures and Needles

3 points

Suture material identification — absorbable vs non-absorbable

Needle-to-skin angle and 4:1 suture-length rule

Suture gauge selection for skin closure

Trauma Scoring Tools

2 points

GCS component calculation from stem findings

Modified shock index — HR/MAP formula trap

Wound Healing and Surgical Site Infection

3 points

Healing by intention and NPWT pressure settings

Wound contamination class and ASEPSIS/Southampton scores

Burst abdomen — resuture, evisceration and tension-suture trap

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