Background and purpose: Centers for training in autonomic nervous system (ANS) disorders are not widely available and the recent coronavirus 2019 pandemic temporarily reduced training opportunities in autonomic medicine across European countries. Here we evaluated the current state of education, clinical skills and postgraduate educational preferences on ANS disorders of European neurology residents and consult...
Hariz and colleagues [1] argue that the new EAN/MDS GL contradicts the repeated endorsements of pallidotomy by the MDS. The MDS has previously published “evidence based medicine (EBM) reviews,” which appraise each treatment on the basis of welldefined criteria but are not GLs. Clinical GLs, such as the new EAN/MDS GL, also take into consideration other variables, including context, summarizing the current medic...
Purpose: To understand the influence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on clinical autonomic education and research in Europe. Methods: We invited 84 European autonomic centers to complete an online survey, recorded the pre-pandemic-to-pandemic percentage of junior participants in the annual congresses of the European Federation of Autonomic Societies (EFAS) and European Academy of Neurology (...