ADC Podcast

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/1/i

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2019 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/12/i

This month brings big decisions and how to make them in our critical appraisal note (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/11/1114.2) and this flows seamlessly into the questions too... almost like there’s some planning involved. We’re asking if prenatal echo can tell us who will need emergency atrial septostomies to make birth as safe to home as close to home a reality (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/...

What if children could vote earlier? And before that, could they make themselves heard by entrusting their parents with their vote? Professor Neena Modi (Imperial College London, UK) says ‘yes’ and ‘yes’. Listen to the thought-provoking conversation with ADC’s Senior Editor Rachel Agbeko. The two paediatricians discuss the evidence behind these proposals and the role of doctors in the process of g...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2019 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/11/i

Does bronchiectasis trouble you at night? Or during the day? Or the weekends? Would you like to brush up on the best evidence to treat and prevent exacerbations? Pop onto this podcast or read more here https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/20/archdischild-2019-317562 You’ll I’m sure be wondering about how much you can extrapolate from the adult data into the kids, and this short appraisal note...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2019 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/10/i

Discussion of a cross over RCT of oxygen automation in nasal high flow oxygen and the associated editorial. ADC Fetal & Neonatal Associate Editor Jonathan Davis talks to Charles Roehr (Oxford University Hospitals); Peter Reynolds (St. Peters Hospital, Chertsy, Surrey); and Peter Dargaville (Royal Hobart, Tasmania, Australia). Read the paper 'Randomised cross-over study of automated oxygen cont...

We have all manner of interesting stuff this month - if you want to keep troublesome cold sores away you can read the extra stuff here http://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-317249 after listening to our summary - if you want to help crying colic-y babies with probiotics you may want to brush up here http://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-317368 You may also want to write your own Archi - whic...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2019 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/9/i

Last month we asked about newborn baby checks being enhanced with pulse oximetry - this month we’re asking “What should you do with a sacral dimple?” (The answer is not “Throw it in the brig until it’s sober”). The answer - in terms of ultrasounding or not - can be found here (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/8/816.1). You might also be wondering about the mineralisation of your jejunally fed kids...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2019 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/8/i

How do we approach parents about organ donation? In the second episode of the ADC Spotlight, Rachel Agbeko invites an intensivist, Dr Susan Bratton, (Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA) and a psychologist, Dr Anne-Sophie Darlington (School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, UK) to talk about end of life care for children and organ donation. They a...

All over the world, tonight, you can hear the sound of babies being examined for covert abnormalities. One of those tests would be the click-hip-thing, one pulse oximetry. Can we make pulse oximetry better though - well here’s an Archi that asks just that (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/5/504). More babies could be found in those very special fish tanks with portholes - popping them out of those...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2019 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/7/i

Welcome to the new ADC Spotlight podcast! We'll be covering areas that don’t usually get much attention or might be taken for granted with the goal of promoting dialogue. In this first podcast, Rachel Agbeko, Associate Editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood, is joined by Jennifer Preston, Senior Patient and Public Involvement Manager at the University of Liverpool, Hugh Davies, Paediatrician a...

The application of the best available evidence sometimes leaves you deciding which systematic review of RCTs is the best, and sometimes scrabbling in the tattered remnants of case reports. This podcast takes you across that spectrum from thinking about zinc supplementation for pneumonia in western Europe (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/6/605.1) to the removal of a VP shunt in a child with appendi...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2019 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/6/i

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2019 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/5/i

Sometimes there are days where you wish you’d not done something, and for many of us, those will be the days after drinking on an evening/night/early-morning out. (And for those who live in Oxford; it’s NEVER the kebab van. It’s the beer.) But there are gems of wisdom to be found by those who observe the socially unfettered antics, as you’ll hear if you listen in. You’ll also get to learn about ho...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the April 2019 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/4/i.

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the March 2019 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/3/i.

There are some questions which are really hard - this month people are trying to answer them. These include “Can I prevent SIDS with a baby sleeping bag?” [https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/3/305] and “Which pressor is first choice in children with septic shock?” [https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/3/303.1] and also - “How often is too often to cry ‘Wolf!’?” [ https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2016/03/02/how-o...

The Editor's Choice paper of the ADC Fetal & Neonatal January edition explores the characteristics of successful neonatal intensive care units and is the topic of a broader discussion between Jonathan Davis, ADC Fetal & Neonatal Associate Editor, and Dr Joseph Kaempf, Women and Children’s Services, Department of Neonatology, Portland, USA. Dr Kaempf is the corresponding author of the paper...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 2019 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/2/i.