Neuro Activities

• List the common causes of meningitis in different patient populations.
• Identify clinical and laboratory features that suggest meningitis.
• Discuss your approach to the initial management of meningitis.
• Provide the prognosis for different types of meningitis.
• List the different types of headache commonly encountered.
• Differentiate between migraine and other headache types.
• Provide a basic strategy for managing simple migraine headaches
• Provide a basic strategy for managing simple migraine headaches including discussion of the specific categories of drugs used to prevent, abort, and manage migraine headaches, and discuss why opioids should be avoided.
• List the clinical features that suggest concussion and the red flags that should indicate the need for further investigations.
• Describe the assessment of patients in the comatose state.
• Discuss indicators of prognosis (e.g., findings on exam, neurophysiology, imaging).
• Detail the steps for diagnosing brain death in an adult.
• Appreciate the role of the brainstem as it pertains to critical functions and illness.
• Interpret the CSF analysis of patients presenting with a differential diagnosis that includes meningitis.