ADC Podcast

When treating children with cancer and febrile neutropenia, you may ask yourself, "Are urinary cultures a waste of time?" Prof. Bob Phillips (1) of the ADC Archimedes podcast joins ADC Spotlight host Dr. Rachel Agbeko to reflect on this question, basing their discussion on the paper, "Role of urine culture in paediatric patients with cancer with fever and neutropenia: a prospective observational s...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 2024 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/2/i   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to ge...

Proving something is safe, or that bad things don’t happen, is always hard. Really hard. And when people turn to the published literature to investigate adverse effects you have to send them much praise - like the team have done in this month's Archimedes when looking at if baclofen causes seizures ( https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/1028.1 ). The other thing we often struggle with is how much we...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2024 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/1/i   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/i   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to g...

The world advanced through the Next Great Thing. Like the C5 electric scooter, Hindenberg air ship and velocipedes. It’s always easy to see the next great thing being ignored when you look backwards in time - but what about looking forwards? Is video-assisted thoracoscopic draining of complicated infected pleural fluid really any better than a tiny plastic pipe and squirting in some fibrin muncher...

This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Dr. Catherine Branthwaite to discuss the viewpoint, "Safeguarding concerns in the Illegal Migration Bill". They speak about the key points of the bill, its scientific shortcomings, and put it into the context of global rights of children. Read the paper: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2023/05/15/archdischild-2023-325589   (1) Pae...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/11/i   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to g...

In this month's Archimedes section of ADC: there are a lot of things in life that are obvious like crash barriers making roads safer, giving iprotropium for wheezy bronchiolitis or using C-reactive protein to differentiate bacterial and viral infections… oh wait … well … one out of three … This podcast is all about how you sometimes need to state the obvious ( https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/10/86...

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the July 2023 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/108/4/323   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. An...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/10/865   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to...

This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Dr. Ian Sinha (1) and Dr. Alice Lee (1) to discuss their review, "Child poverty and health inequalities in the UK: a guide for paediatricians." They provide insight into the varying definitions of poverty, and how paediatricians can make the most difference in their communities. Read the paper: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/2/94  ...

Back to the cut and thrust of clinical neonatology for the September 2023 Archimedes, where we visit the challenge of sugar-free babies again. How do you move forward with uncertainty about the adverse effects of medicines but significant problems with the adverse effects of disease processes? [ doi 10.1136/archdischild-2023-325726 ]   We also flicker our minds back to the Olden Days, when analyse...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/9/i   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to g...

This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Dr. Jonathan Coutts (1), to discuss a viewpoint titled, "Toxic and addictive effects of nicotine on children and adolescents: are we sleepwalking into a public health disaster?" In their conversation they touch on reported statistics relating to adolescent vaping behaviour, EVALI syndrome, and the often-quoted "95% safer" rating of...

Welcome to a new world of Archimedes mini-pods; for those days when you don’t have an Archimedes to listen to or explore, you can pick up the latest issue and train your critically appraising eye on another article. This month we look at one of the best descriptions of the development (and limitations) of a multivariable prediction model we’ve seen in some time [DOI 10.1136/archdischild-2022-32515...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/8/i Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get ep...

This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Claire Zhang (1), to discuss a scoping review of the literature on children's use of healthcare in the UK, and ethnic differences and inequities found there. Children's healthcare outcomes are an important factor in health across the general lifespan, but most studies on healthcare utilisation deal only with adults, so this is a top...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/7/i   Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phon...

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the May 2023 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/108/3/209   Additional links: Nasal High-Flow Therapy during Neonatal Endotracheal Intubation https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116735 Nebulised surfactant to reduce severity of resp...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/6/i Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get epis...

If you’ve ever wondered why tests sometimes don’t really work when you start using them then you’ll really want to listen to this episode .. or read this instead - https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/5/411.2 Or maybe you’ve lain awake at night worrying about how common portal vein thrombosis is in neonates and what that might mean for the baby … again, you’ll really want to get your ears attached to t...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/5/i Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episo...

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the March 2023 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/108/2/95 Additional links: Caffeine Therapy for Apnea of Prematurity https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa054065 Survival Without Disability to Age 5 Years After Neonatal Caffeine Ther...

A patient and their family will often ask the most sensible, thoughtful questions and we’ll head to the evidence to find that research doesn’t quite fit the bill. We discuss this in both the abstract ‘what’s the methodological issues here’ bit of Achimedes (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/4/323.2) and bring it to life via our case of the specialist core exercises system (https://adc.bmj.com/conten...