ADC Podcast

Welcome back to the ADC Spotlight podcast, the Archives of Disease in Childhood podcast covering areas that don’t usually get much attention or might be taken for granted in children's health. This month, Dr Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Mr Robert Wheeler, paediatric and neonatal surgeon and honorary senior lecturer in medical law (1) to discuss the shortage of clinical provisi...

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the January 2022 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/107/1/1 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. And...

This month we go all buggy, thinking about how we can use EU-level regulatory frameworks to help us act in our clinical lives (https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/5/507.2). We also address the persuasive power of an accelerated BCG reaction in children… fort noted by Koch of Koch’s Postulates in rodents (https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/5/507.1), and ask a partially useful question that might save many...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the Atoms - the highlights of the May 2022 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/5/i Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically...

Croaking and wheezing and slightly exhausted… not the average neonatologist but Archimedes this month is brought to you from post-natal palaces and 'post-nasal drip'. We start thinking about how best to communicate a post-natal diagnosis of Down syndrome(https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/4/409.1), which is prefaced by some thoughts on what it means to undertake a ‘good’ qualitative study(https://adc...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the Atoms - the highlights of the April 2022 issue. They start this month by addressing the consequences of wars on children in light of the latest war in Ukraine. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/4/i Please listen to our reg...

A bit like aircraft, intubating and extubating are the awkward and skill-requiring parts of a ventilator journey. Well, not so much the tube removal itself, but the choice of when to do it. And we’ve got a topic report which asks if the ubiquitous ultrasound could help us with that decision: (https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/3/303.1). As for popping a tube in, how do you know it’s in the right plac...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the Atoms - the highlights of the March 2022 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/3/i Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatical...

When we ask our PICO questions, how often do we think about what we’re not asking … and when should we revise them? That’s the core of this little piece which encourages us to think about thinking a bit - https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/2/193.2. Far less profound, and far more helpful, is the question of if twins (and triplets and higher orders) are at greater risk of RSV just by being doublets (w...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the Atoms - the highlights of the February 2022 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/2/i

We’re never going to be satisfied with the search of direct randomised evidence in paediatrics - unless we’re working in the hallowed hills of 'paed oncology' of course - so how should we think about the weight of evidence to change things? There’s a classic lack of direct, trial data when it comes to considering when to give vaccines after TNF-alfa treatments in pregnancy [https://adc.bmj.com/con...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2022 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/1/i

We visit the land of diagnostics in our thinking again this month, deciding when a test can really help us by pressing on to make, or exclude, a diagnosis, and when it simply nudges us a bit one way or another (YOU’LL NEED TO FIND LINK - STARTS There’s something unnerving about getting a test result. And is title is ‘Spins and snouts’) But then we leap away from it, like a young gazelle or enthusi...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2021 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/12/i

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the November 2021 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/106/6/571 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....

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the September 2021 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/106/5/457 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....

Extracting urine has been the subject of Archimedes in the past, but this month wee (geddit?) have questions relating to when you’ve found a UTI. Could you treat a wee one with oral rather than IV antibiotics? (Full answer here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/11/1135.1) Should you make all the little ones with UTI to bend around and take a few mls of CSF from them? (Read on … https://adc.bmj.com/...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2021 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/11/i

Have you ever had a question you thought … “OOOO! That’s an Archimedes in waiting that is!”. Well, join in the footsteps of those who have climbed the craggy path through submission, review, Editorial Board and onwards to the sunny pastures of ‘Online First’ and eventually the Paper Journal (where, like one of our colleagues, your Gran can try and order one from the newsagents because she’s so pro...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2021 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/10/i

Have you ever wanted to get your Archimedes answer to a clinical question into our journal and onto this podcast? Did you worry that because it was about a strange device for making balloons blow up by using your nose that we’d laugh it out of the park? Well - you need not have worried - but it’s already been done (see https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/9/923.1). Same with uncertainties about single-...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2021 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/9/i

This podcast is a roundtable discussion of recent papers on Laryngeal mask use in neonates. ADC Editor Jonathan Davis (NICU Perth Children's Hospital) interviews Charles Rohr (Southmead Hopsital, Bristol, England; Newborn Services, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK), Calum Roberts (Monash Hospital, Melbourne, Australia), and Joyce O'shea (Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow, Scotland) Related ar...

The deliciousness of a fresh home-grown strawberry is tricky to top, isn’t it? And the sense of disappointment when you realise a slug has felt the same way about it? This glimpse into my gastronomic preferences also relates to a critical appraisal note from this month (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/8/821.2) It’s shockingly relevant to one of the articles too - a belief changer perhaps - about u...

It’s the height of summer in the UK and, of course, this makes our thoughts turn to concussion, slipped upper femoral epiphyses and proxy outcomes. (Well, to be honest, I’m not sure it really does... but if you do play out more maybe concussion is more likely and certainly some orthopaedic things are?) SUFE is something we do occasionally see and want to prevent really long term consequences. If o...