Neuroinfect app for iPhone and iPad

Infectious diseases of the central nervous system are very due it`s morbidity and mortality when not diagnosed precisely. Know of this reality it`s imperative that all health professionals, specially the medicine students, generalist doctors, neurologists and intensivists master the subject.

The app Neuroinfect, aims to help in the learning of this complex subject on medicine. The content was developed by a team of neurosurgeons that work at Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte - MG - Brazil and members of Neurosurgery Blog. Composed by the medics: Dr. Mauro Cruz Machado Borgo, Dr. Lucas Alverne Freitas de Albuquerque, Dr. Júlio Leonardo Barbosa Pereira, Dr. José Lopes Filho, Prof. Dr. Gervásio Teles Cardoso de Carvalho, Dr. Paulo Pereira Christo.

The app Neuroinfect has illustrations, MRI and cranial CT to facilitate the learning process.

Covered subjects on the app:

1. Meningitis
2. Bacterial brain abscess
3. Cranial subdural empyema
4. Viral encephalitis
5. SNC infections in AIDS
6. Neurocysticercosis
7. Neuroschistosomiasis
8. Spinal epidural abscess
9. Spondylodiscitis
10. Spinal tuberculosis (Pott`s disease)
11. Operative wound infection
12. Infection of the ventricular shunt system