Key Information
CPD Hours: 16 hours
Course Length: Four weeks
Course Format: A mixture of pre-recorded weekly webinars (which can be reviewed throughout the course), live weekly Q&A sessions with the tutors, online case assessment exercises, supplementary reading material and tutor-moderated online discussion forums
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Course Information
Key Areas
- Clinical presentation of steroid responsive meningitis-arteritis (SRMA)
- How to reach a diagnosis of SRMA and important differentials to consider
- Treatment protocols for SRMA
- Typical presentation of meningoencephalitis of unknown aetiology (MUA)
- Commonly performed diagnostic test results in MUA
- Acute stabilisation of MUA patients and when to refer
- Long term monitoring and management of MUA patients
Have you struggled to diagnose and stabilise a patient with immune-mediated neurological disease? Would you like to better understand these conditions and optimise your long-term management plan?
Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases of the nervous system are increasingly common and often represent a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in practice. These conditions can present as an emergency, requiring prompt recognition and initiation of appropriate therapy.
In this course we will discuss the most common immune-mediated diseases of the nervous system, including how to recognise their typical presenting signs, commonly performed diagnostics, decision-making regarding referral and acute management options. We will then move on to consider long term monitoring. Our aim is to give you the confidence to recognise and successfully manage these challenging patients.
Why do this course
Delegates will build confidence in recognising and managing patients with neurological deficits and/or pain caused by common immune-mediated inflammatory diseases of the nervous system. Both stabilising the emergency patient and managing the disease in the long term will be covered. Learning will be supported by current literature on treatment protocols to ensure the most up to date recommendations are provided.
The webinars for this course will be pre-recorded and can be viewed as recorded versions throughout the course. A live Q&A session with the tutor will run on 1:30pm (London time) on the following dates:
Live Q&A dates:
Wednesday 3rd November
Wednesday 10th November
Wednesday 17th November
Wednesday 24th November
CPD Hours
CPD hours are awarded based on the level of participation. Depending on the course, this may include viewing live or recorded lectures, contributing to the discussion forums, completing online case assessment exercises or self-assessment quizzes and reviewing supplementary reading material.
Please note most of our courses are time released to open with a new topic each week, please bear this in mind when allocating time to complete these courses.
For more information on our eCPD and Webinar Plus CPD please visit: https://www.rvc.ac.uk/study/cpd/about/delivery-modes
Tutors
Abbe Crawford, BVM&S BSc MVetMed PhD DipECVN FHEA MRCVS
Lecturer in Veterinary Neurology and Neurosurgery
The Royal Veterinary College
Joe Fenn, BVetMed MVetMed DipECVN FHEA MRCVS
Associate Professor in Veterinary Neurology and Neurosurgery
The Royal Veterinary College
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