ADC Podcast

ADC Editor in Chief Mark Beattie takes you through his picks from the February edition. For all the content from the issue see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/2.toc

ADC Editor in Chief Mark Beattie takes you through his picks from the January edition. The topics are EEG in the assessment of ‘staring' in children with autistic spectrum disorder, bile stained vomiting in the neonatal period, management of peanut allergy, and the safety of paracetamol. For all the content from the issue see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/1.toc

Nick Brown talks to Sadia Shakoor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, about her review examining TB programmes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Dr Shakoor and colleagues evaluated the current capacity of TB control programmes in these four countries to diagnose, treat and quantify childhood TB, and propose practical solutions to gaps in...

Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions, including is the use of plastic bags for thermoregulation in term neonates effective in preventing hypothermia in a low-resource setting? And is a child at risk following a community-acquired needlestick injury? For the full articles, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/12.toc#Archimedes

ADC Editor in Chief Mark Beattie takes you through his picks from the December edition. The topics are recognition of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, litigation, toxic shock syndrome, common visual problems in children with disability, and propranolol for infantile haemangioma. For all the content from the issue see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/12.toc

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a gene disorder causing a debilitating syndrome. Recently, population migration has meant that SCD now has a worldwide distribution and that a substantial number of children are born with the condition in higher-income areas, including large parts of Europe and North and South America. ADC Global Health editor Nick Brown talks to co author Thomas Williams about the bio...

Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions, including should newborns of mothers with isolated antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen be immunised? Does topical local anaesthetic reduce pain from vaccinations in infants? For the full articles, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/11.toc#Archimedes

Mark Beattie discusses his picks from November's ADC. For all the content from the issues, see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/11.toc

Mark Beattie discusses his picks from October's ADC. For all the content from the issues, see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/10.toc

Neonatal jaundice is predominantly a benign condition that affects 60%–80% of newborns worldwide but progresses to potentially harmful severe hyperbilirubinaemia in some. Despite the proven therapeutic benefits of phototherapy for preventing extreme hyperbilirubinaemia, acute bilirubin encephalopathy or kernicterus, several low-income and middle-income countries continue to report high rates of av...

Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions, including is ultrasound scanning as sensitive as CT in detecting skull fractures in children presenting following head injury? And should children who have a febrile seizure be screened for iron deficiency? For the full articles, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/10.toc

Mark Beattie discusses his picks from September's ADC. For all the content from the issues, see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/9.toc

Mark Beattie discusses his picks from August's ADC. For all the content from the issues, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/7.toc

Listen here to a shortcut to the answers for these clinical questions: Ultrarapid intravenous rehydration in children who are dehydrated from viral gastroenteritis: does it work? http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/9/878.1.full Humidified heated high flow nasal cannula versus nasal continuous positive airway pressure for providing respiratory support following extubation in preterm newborns http://adc.b...

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a force to reckon with, as it accounts for 1.1 million of all deaths in children less than 5 years of age globally, with disproportionately higher mortality occurring in the low and middle income-countries (LMICs) of Southeast Asia and Africa. Existing strategies to curb pneumonia-related morbidity and mortality have not effectively translated into meanin...

Summer might be here, and the time might be right for dancing in the streets, but for the dedicated follower of EBM, there's only one thing to listen to. This month's Archimedes podcast covers a rant about journal clubs, using subcutaneous fluids in children and the treatment of congenital CMV infection. The papers can be found here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/8.toc As always, comments on the p...

Mark Beattie discusses his picks from July's ADC. For all the content from the issues, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/7.toc

In this month's Archimedes update, Dr Bob Phillips wonders about when to act, when to stop acting, and when to do nothing at all - in the context of diagnostic testing - and summarises two Archimedes reports; one on whether or not to apply splints to neonates you've cannulated, the other on the need for septic screens in neonates with soft tissue infections. The full papers can be found here: Spli...

Managing even uncomplicated HIV infection is a major undertaking. When compounded by nutritional compromise, as it so often is, it becomes many times more complex. When the two co-exist, mortality rises exponentially so awareness, prevention, early identification and aggressive management are essential. In this podcast, ADC's global health editor Nick Brown talks to Anna Rose, UCL, about her recen...

Editor Mark Beattie discusses his highlights from the June edition of ADC. Find all the content from the issue here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/6.toc Listen to the referenced podcast on HIV and malnutrition here: http://goo.gl/D31I6X

Mark Beattie discusses his selection from May's edition. For all the content, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/5.toc The ADC FN EPIcure2 podcast he mentions is available here http://goo.gl/5Mn50M

FN editor Martin Ward Platt talks through his picks from May 2014's edition. For all the articles, see http://fn.bmj.com/content/99/3.toc

In this month's Archimedes podcast, section editor Bob Phillips discusses the ADC blog series on the basics of evidence based medicine http://goo.gl/CQM4P8 and two questions regarding diagnostic cerebral catheterisation http://goo.gl/ulmSr6 and measuring serum sodium from capilliary blood samples http://goo.gl/uAFhKH. There's also a bonus treat of a haematological top tip.

Research understanding the lives of children with disabilities in low-income and middle-income countries has predominantly focused on prevalence studies with little progress on evidence-based service development. At the same time, global attention in child health has shifted from child survival strategies to those that bring child survival and development together. Aisha Yousafzai, Aga Khan Univer...

Ronny Cheung, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and Claire Lemer, Evelina Children's Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, look at the role of data in improving the quality of care for children and young people: how they can help to identify a problem, guide design of solutions, and evaluate changes in practice. Drs Lemer and Cheung introduce some principles for...