ILOs

• recognise CNS infection early on;
• be aware of radiological and laboratory diagnosis of CNS infection;
• appropriate management: antimicrobials and adjuvant therapies.

• How do we classify CNS infection?
• What are the types of infections we get when thinking anatomically?
• And if we’re thinking aetiologically, then?
• What is meningitis?
• Here’s a study showing us the aetiology of meningitis in the UK…
• Look at the global burden of meningitis…
• What’s the impact of the Hib vaccine in the UK?
• Here’s a graph showing us the effects of vaccination on invasive pneumococcal infection…
• What are the signs and symptoms of meningitis?
• Outline the forms of bacterial meningitis we see…
• Which patients are more at likely of meningococcal disease?
• How do we predict the aetiology of bacterial meningitis?
• What makes pneumococcal meningitis different from others?
• Look at pictures of classic meningococcal infection…
• How do the outcomes of patients vary depending on the type of meningitis they get?