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. METHODICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL WORK OF THE STUDENTS IN PREPARATION FOR PRACTICAL CLASSES Subject NEUROLOGY Topic Meningitis Year IV Faculty Medical Topicality: Inflammatory diseases of the brain play significant role in the structure of lethality, especially with young people. An acute course of meningitis, encephalitis, myelitis demands quick medical decisions and actions. Every doctor is to be able to timely diagnose meningitis, encephalitis and to administer right treatment. The timeliness of treatment administration often determines the result of the disease. Only timely diagnostics and adequate therapy makes it possible to avoid or decrease the disease development and complication. 2. Specific purposes: To know the classification of inflammatory diseases of the nervous system; to know basic clinical syndromes and symptoms of meningitis. To be able to analyze auxiliary methods of research in diagnosing the inflammatory diseases of the nervous system. To be able to formulate the diagnosis and to administer the treatment scheme to a patient with the inflammatory disease of the nervous system (meningitis). 3. Basic knowledge, skills, competences necessary for learning the topic (interdisciplinary integration) № Subject Information to learn Skills 1. Anatomy The anatomy of brain and spinal cord, brain membranes — ? 2. Physiology Medullispinal liquid, its composition and circulation To evaluate the liquor composition. 3. Pathological Anatomy Stages of inflammatory process, morphological changes in nervous system during inflammatory processes — 4. Pathophysiology Etiology and pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases of the nervous system, types and stages of inflammatory process, immunological upsets, pathological syndrome of liquor system abnormalities. To evaluate the pathological changes in the liquor. 5. Microbiology Characteristics of causative agents of inflammatory diseases of the nervous system (