In this podcast Dr Nick Brown, global heath editor, talks to Dr Jess Morgan from Calderdale Royal Hospital, West Yorkshire and Dr Colin Powell from the Noah's Ark Childrens Hospital for Wales about the recent Archimedes question in ADC about intravenous maintenance fluids for children. This question, although not a global issue, is still a problem which affects many hospital doctors and the Archimedes article looks into hospitalised children requiring intravenous maintenance fluids (population),...
Jul 21, 2015•13 min•Ep. 71
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes question of whether it is possible to predict the severity of allergic reactions in children with IgE-mediated food allergy. Read the articles: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/6.toc#Archimedes
Jul 02, 2015•11 min•Ep. 70
Mark Beattie talks you through his picks of June's ADC, including autoimmune encephalitis, optimal management of allergic rhinitis, and why was this child not brought? For all the content see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/6.toc
Jun 24, 2015•10 min•Ep. 69
Editor in Chief Mark Beattie goes through his picks of May's journal, including making decisions to limit treatment in life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, patterns of bruising in preschool children, and physical and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with single-ventricle circulation. Read all the papers here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/5.toc
Jun 08, 2015•11 min•Ep. 68
ADC Editor in Chief Mark Beattie takes you through his picks from the March edition, including disability and economic disadvantage, advance care planning, and anti TNF therapy for paediatric IBD. For all the content from the issue see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/4.toc
Jun 01, 2015•11 min•Ep. 67
ADC Editor in Chief Mark Beattie takes you through his picks from the March edition, including hallucinations and illusions in migraine in children, childhood obesity, and fear of oxygen therapy for children in Malawi. For all the content from the issue see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/3.toc
May 14, 2015•11 min•Ep. 66
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes topics, including probiotic supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder. Read the articles: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/5.toc#Archimedes
May 05, 2015•7 min•Ep. 65
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions, including is breastfeeding useful in the management of neonatal abstinence syndrome? For the full articles, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/4.toc#Archimedes
May 05, 2015•9 min•Ep. 64
As 2015 marks 15 years of the Millennium Development Goals, Nick Brown, ADC's Global Health commissioning editors, talks us through their history and what they have done for child health. He also gives an overview of the supplement ADC have published on the progress of the goals thus far. Read the supplement (for free): http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/Suppl_1.toc
Feb 19, 2015•8 min•Ep. 63
ADC Editor in Chief Mark Beattie takes you through his picks from the February edition. For all the content from the issue see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/2.toc
Jan 19, 2015•9 min•Ep. 62
ADC Editor in Chief Mark Beattie takes you through his picks from the January edition. The topics are EEG in the assessment of ‘staring' in children with autistic spectrum disorder, bile stained vomiting in the neonatal period, management of peanut allergy, and the safety of paracetamol. For all the content from the issue see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/100/1.toc
Jan 19, 2015•10 min•Ep. 61
Nick Brown talks to Sadia Shakoor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, about her review examining TB programmes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Dr Shakoor and colleagues evaluated the current capacity of TB control programmes in these four countries to diagnose, treat and quantify childhood TB, and propose practical solutions to gaps in achieving integrated paediatric TB management. Read the full review: http://goo.gl/9FPvri
Jan 12, 2015•14 min•Ep. 60
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions, including is the use of plastic bags for thermoregulation in term neonates effective in preventing hypothermia in a low-resource setting? And is a child at risk following a community-acquired needlestick injury? For the full articles, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/12.toc#Archimedes
Nov 20, 2014•13 min•Ep. 59
ADC Editor in Chief Mark Beattie takes you through his picks from the December edition. The topics are recognition of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, litigation, toxic shock syndrome, common visual problems in children with disability, and propranolol for infantile haemangioma. For all the content from the issue see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/12.toc
Nov 20, 2014•10 min•Ep. 58
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a gene disorder causing a debilitating syndrome. Recently, population migration has meant that SCD now has a worldwide distribution and that a substantial number of children are born with the condition in higher-income areas, including large parts of Europe and North and South America. ADC Global Health editor Nick Brown talks to co author Thomas Williams about the biology of the disease, this new global spread and the burden of SCD in resource-poor countries. Read t...
Nov 20, 2014•14 min•Ep. 57
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions, including should newborns of mothers with isolated antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen be immunised? Does topical local anaesthetic reduce pain from vaccinations in infants? For the full articles, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/11.toc#Archimedes
Nov 14, 2014•10 min•Ep. 56
Mark Beattie discusses his picks from November's ADC. For all the content from the issues, see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/11.toc
Nov 07, 2014•10 min•Ep. 55
Mark Beattie discusses his picks from October's ADC. For all the content from the issues, see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/10.toc
Nov 07, 2014•11 min•Ep. 54
Neonatal jaundice is predominantly a benign condition that affects 60%–80% of newborns worldwide but progresses to potentially harmful severe hyperbilirubinaemia in some. Despite the proven therapeutic benefits of phototherapy for preventing extreme hyperbilirubinaemia, acute bilirubin encephalopathy or kernicterus, several low-income and middle-income countries continue to report high rates of avoidable exchange transfusions, as well as bilirubin-induced mortality and neurodevelopmental disorde...
Oct 15, 2014•13 min•Ep. 53
Bob Phillips talks you through this month's Archimedes questions, including is ultrasound scanning as sensitive as CT in detecting skull fractures in children presenting following head injury? And should children who have a febrile seizure be screened for iron deficiency? For the full articles, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/10.toc
Oct 07, 2014•13 min•Ep. 52
Mark Beattie discusses his picks from September's ADC. For all the content from the issues, see: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/9.toc
Sep 26, 2014•9 min•Ep. 51
Mark Beattie discusses his picks from August's ADC. For all the content from the issues, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/7.toc
Sep 05, 2014•8 min•Ep. 50
Listen here to a shortcut to the answers for these clinical questions: Ultrarapid intravenous rehydration in children who are dehydrated from viral gastroenteritis: does it work? http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/9/878.1.full Humidified heated high flow nasal cannula versus nasal continuous positive airway pressure for providing respiratory support following extubation in preterm newborns http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/9/880.full After that, you might want to read about studies which compare some the...
Sep 04, 2014•10 min•Ep. 49
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a force to reckon with, as it accounts for 1.1 million of all deaths in children less than 5 years of age globally, with disproportionately higher mortality occurring in the low and middle income-countries (LMICs) of Southeast Asia and Africa. Existing strategies to curb pneumonia-related morbidity and mortality have not effectively translated into meaningful control of pneumonia-related burden. A recent systematic review in ADC looks at trials conducte...
Jul 15, 2014•11 min•Ep. 48
Summer might be here, and the time might be right for dancing in the streets, but for the dedicated follower of EBM, there's only one thing to listen to. This month's Archimedes podcast covers a rant about journal clubs, using subcutaneous fluids in children and the treatment of congenital CMV infection. The papers can be found here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/8.toc As always, comments on the podcast, section and EBM in general are very welcome by email to info.adc@bmj.com or on twitter @ADC_...
Jul 11, 2014•10 min•Ep. 47
Mark Beattie discusses his picks from July's ADC. For all the content from the issues, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/7.toc
Jun 26, 2014•10 min•Ep. 46
In this month's Archimedes update, Dr Bob Phillips wonders about when to act, when to stop acting, and when to do nothing at all - in the context of diagnostic testing - and summarises two Archimedes reports; one on whether or not to apply splints to neonates you've cannulated, the other on the need for septic screens in neonates with soft tissue infections. The full papers can be found here: Splints - http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/7/694.1.extract Septic Screens - http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/7...
Jun 26, 2014•10 min•Ep. 45
Managing even uncomplicated HIV infection is a major undertaking. When compounded by nutritional compromise, as it so often is, it becomes many times more complex. When the two co-exist, mortality rises exponentially so awareness, prevention, early identification and aggressive management are essential. In this podcast, ADC's global health editor Nick Brown talks to Anna Rose, UCL, about her recent paper which examines both the HIV/ malnutrition relationship and the multiple spokes, social and m...
Jun 23, 2014•8 min•Ep. 44
Editor Mark Beattie discusses his highlights from the June edition of ADC. Find all the content from the issue here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/6.toc Listen to the referenced podcast on HIV and malnutrition here: http://goo.gl/D31I6X
Jun 13, 2014•10 min•Ep. 43
Mark Beattie discusses his selection from May's edition. For all the content, see http://adc.bmj.com/content/99/5.toc The ADC FN EPIcure2 podcast he mentions is available here http://goo.gl/5Mn50M
May 01, 2014•11 min•Ep. 42
