ADC Podcast

What proportion of children do you think report bullying? Do you think if, like the kids on the deserted island of Lord of the Flies, you have asthma that it’s worse? We discuss this and the evidence behind it this month - https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/9/903.1 … and we also talk about choosing chips too - https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/9/903.2. Where the podcast can’t quite capture the complexi...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/105/9/i

A discussion of the BAPM framework for practice on management of babies fn.bmj.com/content/105/3/240

I’m fairly sure we are all a bit exhausted by this pandemic. It’s not been nice. There have been changes which we all wonder about, trying to find silver linings, feeling awkward .. and which we muse on in this podcast (and here https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/06/24/learnable-moments/ ) The meat of this month’s Archi is two issues which may make us uncomfortable as paediatricians too; how effective...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/8/i

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor Jonathan Davis and the Edition Editor of the journal Ben Stenson discuss the highlights from the July issue. Read the Fantoms here: https://fn.bmj.com/content/105/4/343 Discover the issue here: https://fn.bmj.com/content/105/4

You might be able to hear the tinkle of a tiny bell and the purr of a kitten on this month’s offerting, while you’re considering whywe have fewer trials of the ‘normal’ than we do of the extraordinary (https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/05/20/questioning-the-minutiae/) and then be impressed by those who have tried to see if nasal lignocaine helps kids when they’re having an NG passed ( https://adc.bmj...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/105/7/i

With the explosion of the pre-print and the idol of peer review returning, we keep needing to think carefully about an evidence-based approach to our practice (https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/04/25/the-problems-and-power-of-peer-review/) and follow the lead of those considering the use of laryngeal mask airways rather than proper tubes for neonates (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/6/601.1) and also...

The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes because of conflict, persecution, natural disasters and famine is increasing globally, reaching 68.5 million at the end of 2017. Over half of the world’s refugees are children. This podcast discusses how the experiences of child refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in England impacts on their health and presents recommendations...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/105/6/i

This podcast is a discussion of the circulation response to cord clamping in congenital diaphragmatic hernia in an animal model. Jonathan Davis talks to Philip DeKoninck and Aidan Kashyap, both from The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia, who are authors of a study which concludes that physiologically-based cord clamping (PBCC) may improve the cardiopulmonar...

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor Jonathan Davis and the Edition Editor of the journal Ben Stenson discuss the highlights from the March issue. Read the Fantoms here: https://fn.bmj.com/content/105/2/115 Discover the issue here: https://fn.bmj.com/content/105/2

It’s a difficult world to live in, and our powers of communication are probably at their most needed right now. We discuss how to be clear about evidence based decision making ( https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/03/19/in-pandemics-clear-thinking-and-explanations-matter-even-more/) and the presence of families in resuscitation (https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/11/28/archdischild-2019-318314 ). W...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-319275

The rationale for mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid is discussed in this ADC Spotlight podcast. Senior editor of ADC Rachel Agbeko talks to Nicholas Wald and Joan Morris, both from the Population Health Research Institute, St George’s, University of London, about their recent paper which is a response to the 2019 UK Government’s public consultation on the folic acid fortification of...

How do we know when something it good enough? Close enough that we can use product A instead of product B? Well, that’s the issue we’ve addressed in our methods chat this month (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/3/304.2) We’ve also looked at what used to be the things that sprang to mind with breathing difficulties; bronchiolitis and asthma. For bronchs - what dose of high flow oxygen (https://adc.b...

Jonathan Davis talks to Professor Yuan Shi - Department of Neonatology, Chongqing Medical University Affiliated Children's Hospital, China, who recently published recommendations for pregnant and new born babies in suspected infection with Covid-19. They also discuss what signs to look out for in patients. Read the letter on the on the ADC website (https://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2020/03/04/archd...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown and Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the April 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/105/4/i

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the March 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/105/3/i

The delight we all have in neonates spills over this issue, where we tackle the thorny issues of QTc prolongation with domperidone (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/2/202) and how best to manage the concerns of a midwife over an raised cord blood lactate (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/2/200.1). Sadly, how to remember how to calculate QTc or work in a constructive interprofessional manner aren’t a...

Later than usual, this is the podcast about the Archimedes of the December 2019 issue. Children seem to throw up because they are poorly, or because they are excited, or because they are hot, or because they had too many fizzy sweeties, or because they know you’ve just had the car cleaned. So how do we manage a child who’s had a little head bump and has thrown up once? Find out in this podcast (an...

The infant mortality rate in USA exceeds that of most other developed nations, ranking 26th among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. This ADC Spotlight podcast is about inequity and health. Professor Heather Burris is the first author of the paper “Racial disparities in preterm birth in the US; a biosensor of physical and social environmental exposures” (https://adc....

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown and Senior Editor Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/2/i

MRI is essential to the clinical management of children and young people with brain tumours and it is common practice to show these to patients and families, but how they emotionally respond to seeing brain tumour imaging? Rachel Agbeko explores the qualitative study "Patients’ and parents’ views on brain tumour MRIs" with the leading author of the paper Natalie Tyldesley-Marshall (Research fellow...