Bob Phillips discusses February's ADC Archimedes questions. QUESTION 1: Are household contacts of patients with invasive group A streptococcal disease at higher risk of secondary infection? QUESTION 2: Are intravenous fluid boluses beneficial in late preterm or term infants with suspected haemodynamic compromise? Find the articles here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/101/2.toc
Robert Scott-Jupp discusses the February 2016 Archivist section of the journal.
Robert Scott-Jupp discusses the February 2016 Lucina articles in Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Ian Wacogne, ADC EP Editor, talks you through his picks of the February issue. For all the content from the issue, see: http://ep.bmj.com/content/101/1.toc
Robert Scott-Jupp discusses the January 2016 Archivist articles in Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Bob Phillips discusses January's ADC Archimedes questions. QUESTION 1: Can paediatric early warning systems predict serious clinical deterioration in paediatric inpatients? QUESTION 2: What is the best strategy to promote water consumption in children? Find the articles here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/101/1.toc#Archimedes
Robert Scott-Jupp discusses the January 2016 Lucina articles in Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Editor-in-Chief Mark Beattie walks us through the issue highlights including: Conflict in a paediatric hospital, childhood varicella vaccination, Controversies in the diagnosis and management of growth hormone deficiency, The morbidity and mortality meeting, New meningococcal vaccination programme launched. Find the content here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/101/1.toc
Jonathan Davis speaks to Professor Marlow and Dr Alangady, two of the authors of the article: The attitudes of Neonatologists towards extremely preterm infants. Here's a link to the article: http://fn.bmj.com/content/101/1/31.full
In this podcast Dr Nick Brown talks to Dr Winston Nguyen about his paper published in ADC titled "Paediatric cardiac surgery in low-income and middle-income countries: a continuing challenge". The discuss the historical difficulties with treating cardiac risk in low income countries and methods that are being used to improve care in the future. Read the full paper: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/12/1156.full?sid=e7e3d24f-d730-4cef-8054-32d390d3b4fb
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions. Question 1: Co-trimoxazole dosing dilemma: what is the right dose? Question 2: Unexpected neutropenia in a febrile, but immunocompetent, child Link: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/11.toc#Archimedes
Bob Phillips discusses December's ADC Archimedes questions. Question 1: Does prophylactic paracetamol prevent fever after vaccination in infants? Question 2: Do standing frames and other related physical therapies reduce the risk of fractures in children with cerebral palsy?
Editor-in-Chief Mark Beattie walks us through the issue highlights including: self-asphyxial behaviours (the choking game), chronic fatigue syndrome and advances in the management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Find the content here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/12.toc
Ian Wacogne, ADC EP Editor, talks you through his picks of the December issue. For all the content from the issue, see: http://ep.bmj.com/content/100/6.toc
Listen to Mark Beattie discuss the November issue highlights including the dangers of ingesting magnetised toys and ADC:E&P's Twitter journal club article: Head Injury from Falls in Children Younger than 6 Years of Age. Find the content here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/11.toc
In this podcast Dr Mark Beattie, Editor-in-Chief of ADC, talks to Dr Vic Larcher from the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health about a supplement recently published in the journal. The supplement is entitled "Making decisions to limit treatment in life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in children: a framework for practice" and can be found online here http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/Suppl_2.toc
Mark Beattie talks you through his highlights from October's issue, including UK child death rates compared with other EU countries, sudden infant death syndrome, and talking with children about their health. Read all the content here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/10.toc
In this podcast Dr Nick Brown, global health editor, talks to Dr Rob Klaassen about his paper recently published in the journal. They discuss Thalasseemia in developing countries, availability of medication and various methods to treat excess iron. Full paper http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2015/08/19/archdischild-2014-308112.full
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions. Question 1: Phenobarbital for preventing mortality and morbidity in full-term newborns with perinatal asphyxia in a resource-poor setting Question 2: Can faecal calprotectin be used as an effective diagnostic aid for necrotising enterocolitis in neonates? Link: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/10.toc#Archimedes
In this podcast Dr Nick Brown speaks to Julia Downing about the recently published paper "Children's palliative care in low- and middle-income countries". They cover the problems facing palliative care professionals in different countries as well as case studies of successful care institutions. Full paper >> http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2015/09/13/archdischild-2015-308307.full
In this podcast Dr Jonathan Davis talks to Dr Ben Stenson and Dr Dominic Wilkinson about their recent paper "Don't stop now? How long should resuscitation continue at birth in the absence of a detectable heartbeat?". They discuss the ethical and practical problems behind deciding when to stop resuscitation on a new born and take a look at the current guidelines. To read the full paper >> http://fn.bmj.com/content/100/6/F476.full
Ian Wacogne, ADC EP Editor, talks you through his picks of the October issue. For all the content from the issue, see: http://ep.bmj.com/content/100/5.toc
Mark Beattie talks you through his highlights from September's issue, including the long term effects of bullying, cognitive faction in adolescents with chronic fatigue, and fever. Read all the content here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/9.toc
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions. Firstly: Does vitamin D supplementation prevent acute lower respiratory tract infections in children? Secondly: What are the risk factors for antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteraemia in children with cancer? Links: Towards evidence based medicine in paediatrics: predictive factors - http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/9/892.2.full Question 1 - http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/9/892.1.full Question 2 - http://adc.bmj.com/content/100...
Investment in early childhood initiatives in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is increasing. These initiatives use early childhood developmental assessment tools (CDATs) as outcome measures. In this podcast Nick Brown talks to Saraswathy Sabanathan from the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Melissa Gladstone from the Department of Women and Children's Health at the University of Liverpool about a recent paper in the journal. Full article >> http://adc.bmj.com/conte...
Nick Brown talks to Suzanne T Anderson and Gabriella Watson, both Gambia Unit, Medical Research Council, about managing poststreptococcal complications, such as acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, in resource-limited settings. Read the full paper: http://goo.gl/yFFW0f
Mark Beattie discusses his picks from August's issue, including defining normal heart rate, conflict escalation in paediatric services, and recent advances in interventional cardiology. For all the content from the issue, see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/8.toc
In this podcast Dr Nick Brown and Dr Ian Balfour-Lynn discuss tachypnoea in the well baby and the best approach to a scenario that a number of doctors can easily get a bit confused by. Here's the link to the article, which is free to read: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/8/722.full
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions: firstly whether oral salbutamol is useful in resource-poor settings and secondly the role of methotrexate in severe atopic eczema in children. Read the articles: adc.bmj.com/content/100/8.toc#Archimedes
Mark Beattie discusses his picks from the July issue of the journal, including prevalence of severe childhood obesity in England, bed sharing and sudden infant death and daytime napping. For all the articles see http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/7.toc
