Target Audience
- Medical Interns, Residents, neurology, neurosurgical and critical care (ICU, ED, Anaesthetic) trainees.
- Nurses working in critical care environments (e.g. ICU, ED, neurosurgical step down units).
- Medical students rotating through critical care specialties.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this module you should be able to:
- Define commonest CNS infections: meningitis, encephalitis, ventriculitis, others
- Understand basic epidemiology of CNS infections
- Describe the different causative pathogens involved in CNS infection
- Understand clinical presentation of CNS infections
- Understand the emergency investigations and management of suspected CNS infection
- Understand the difference in presentation and treatment of bacterial meningitis, viral encephalitis, TB meningitis, fungal CNS infection
- Understand the intensive care management of critically ill patients with CNS infections
- Know what ventriculitis is, specifically in the context of external ventricular drains – define, diagnose, management
- Understand prognosis of the different CNS infections
