Abstract

The Liverpool neurological infectious diseases course is for anyone who has ever struggled with a patient who has meningitis, encephalitis, or another neurological infection and not known how best to manage him or her. The course is the only one of its kind in the United Kingdom, and there were 110 delegates from across the UK when I attended, plus people from Europe, Africa, and Asia. I took the course when I was a year 4 specialist registrar, but I wish I had known about it earlier. Patients with neurological infections are common, but their management is often very difficult. The presenting syndromes are elusive, which makes the diagnosis difficult, and determining the best treatment can be hard. Liverpool is the home of the School of Tropical Medicine, and it is also the base for several important institutions such as the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery; Alder Hey …

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