ADC Podcast

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2019 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/1/i.

When do questions get too tricky? What fluid should you use for what job? How quickly should you do it? And what reindeer based evidence might be hiding in this month’s Archimedes podcast? Well you can read the answers to some of these questions in the editorialising section [https://adc.bmj.com/content/103/12/1178.2], a nephrology view of fluid composition [https://adc.bmj.com/content/103/12/1178...

The complications of neonatal intubation are discussed in this podcast. Joyce O'Shea and Marta Thio, both from the Newborn Research Centre, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, talk to the ADC Fetal & Neonatal Associate Editor Jonathan Davis. Read the paper on the ADC FN website: https://fn.bmj.com/content/103/5/F408.

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2018 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/103/12/i.

Bob Phillips discusses the November 2018 Archimedes section discussing two clinical questions from the journal. QUESTION 1: Do children with Down syndrome benefit from extra vaccinations? https://adc.bmj.com/content/103/11/1085 QUESTION 2: Etanercept or adalimumab: which is a better biological therapy for juvenile idiopathic arthritis? https://adc.bmj.com/content/103/11/1087 Towards evidence based...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2018 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/103/11/i.

By highlighting what is new in paediatric medication safety, as well as the gaps that remain, the authors of this paper hope to continue to foster focus on this critically important area. Dr Claire Lemer (Consultant in children's health) and Dr Dan Hawcutt (Senior Lecturer Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool) discuss the paper published by ADC, “What is new in paediatric medi...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2018 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/103/10/i.

Discussion of paper "Outcomes of oxygen saturation targeting during delivery room stabilisation of preterm infants", included on the ADC Fetal and Neonatal issue of September 2018. https://fn.bmj.com/content/103/5/F446

This podcast is a conversation between Dr Jan Aldridge, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Martin House Children’s Hospice, Yorkshire, and Dr Bob Phillips, Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, about the challenges of working directly with children who are dying and their families. It’s based on a great paper from the Education and Practice section (ep.bmj.com/content/102/4/182) and we hope it brings...

In this episode, ADC’s Editor-in-Chief Nick Brown talks to Mark Peters, Professor of Paediatric Intensive Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital. They discuss the recent editorial published in ADC regarding the risks of supplemental oxygen in acute illness. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-315437

This month, ADC's Social Media and Archimedes Editor Bob Phillips has learned quite a lot about things he never realised he never knew about - like chelation of heavy metals for altering behaviour in people with autistic spectrum disorder (adc.bmj.com/content/early/2018/07/14/archdischild-2018-315338), and if horse beats human in the race to help infants with botulism (adc.bmj.com/content/early/20...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2018 issue in a very short podcast. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/103/9/ii.

There may be people old enough to remember chalk at school, or young enough to recall playing with massive sticks of it on the tarmac outside. That’s not relevant in this Archimedes though, as we grapple with renal stones and how to get rid of them (adc.bmj.com/content/103/8/806.1) and how much Vitamin D does a preterm need to have nicely crunchy bones (adc.bmj.com/content/103/8/808). Does reading...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2018 issue in a very short podcast. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/103/8/i.

Severe acquired subglottic stenosis is a serious consequence of intubation for mechanical ventilation in neonatal intensive care unit graduates, especially in preterm infants, concludes a case-control study discussed in this podcast. The paper adds that this serious complication may be prevented by minimising trauma during intubations, avoiding recurrent extubation/reintubations and using appropri...

After giving you all the heads-up on the process of doing an Archimedes last month, this month we address ways of improving breathing. First, in the emergency department - we’re asking should you use pred or dex in wheeze (https://adc.bmj.com/content/103/7/707.1) and then in the neonatal intensive care unit where we’re questioning what sort of device to use to puff pressure into those teeny tiny n...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2018 issue in a very short podcast. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/103/7/ii.

The ambition to halve the number of deaths and brain injuries related to births by 2030 was announced by the Department of Health in England, in 2015. The study discussed in this podcast presents a pragmatic case definition and annual incidence rates from data held in the National Neonatal Research Database (NNRD). Chris Gale (Section of Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London, UK), tells ADC F...

Listen up folks! In the spirit of carefree nuns and clean mountain air, Archimedes has had a burst of newness. This month, we talk to Alisha Burnham, published Archi Author, about the process of doing an Archimedes and how you too can get started.

Considering the large increase in the number of children and adolescents who question conventional gender expectations and seek to develop a body that is congruent with their gender feelings, how can paediatricians best respond? Dysphoria v. dysmorphia; or diagnosis v. recognition are some of the concepts and distinctions you’ll hear about in this podcast, which is an absorbing conversation betwee...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2018 issue in a very short podcast. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/6/i.

Too tiny or too young to have ivermectin? Well, you might not think so after listening to this month’s podcast or reading the informative article here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/5/514.1. Just don’t find yourself scratching too much. And if you’re a bit frustrated by recurrent viral wheeze in your toddler, have you thought about leukotriene antagonists? (Well stop thinking about it now; listen...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2018 issue in a very short podcast. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/5/i.

What’s the safety and tolerability of the new enriched synthetic surfactant CHF5633? Associate Editor of ADC FN Jonathan Davis is joined by David Sweet (Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast) to discuss a first-in-human clinical study of two human surfactant proteins in preterm babies with respiratory distress syndrome. Read the Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal's open access pape...