Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the March 2021 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/3/i
Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February2021 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/2/i
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor Jonathan Davis interviews Haribalakrishna Balasubramanian (Department of Neonatology, Surya Hospitals, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India), and Anitha Ananthan (Department of Neonatology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) about their recent systematic review and meta-analysis on cord milking in preterm delivery. Read the relevant papers on the ADC website: https://fn.bmj.com/content/105/6/572 https://fn.bmj.com/content/103/6/F...
We all have moments of crying out “But why on EARTH did they do that study?” after a blisteringly obvious result is revealed … and we chat a little here about why that might be the case (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/1/90.2) but the real story of this episode is all about antiepileptic drugs (AED) and bones. We start asking the question “Do children on AED get thinner bones?” (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/1/92) and lead from there to the question “Well should we prescribe Vitamin D to all o...
Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2021 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/1/i
Do opiates make pain more bearable than non-steroidals in the emergency department? When you’ve got a really, really painful musculoskeletal injury? Well, listen up to find the answer, and read here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/12/1229.1. And you know that we leave a four-week gap between live-attenuated immunisations, but do we really need to do that, especially with more modern ones? (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/12/1232) After wondering about how to define not knowing, we now talk abou...
Editor-in-Chief of ADC, Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/12/i
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor Jonathan Davis and the Edition Editor of the journal Ben Stenson discuss the highlights from the November issue. Read the Fantoms here: https://fn.bmj.com/content/105/6/571 Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast...
Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/11/i
We all know steroids are anti-inflammatory - but should they be used as a kid with Kawaski disease walks through the door? We wonder about that in this issue (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/11/1120.1), along with what sort of beta blocker you can use for high-risk infantile haemangiomas … can you just rub a bit of magic cream on and make it go away (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/11/1124). And we also wonder and twitter about the limits of knowing, and how we can do better with our words somet...
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor Jonathan Davis interviews Karen Luyt, University of Bristol, and David Odd, University of Cardiff, about the DRIFT-10 study and other studies related to intervention of post-haemorrhagic ventricular dilation. Read more on the ADC Fetal and Neonatal website - https://fn.bmj.com/content/105/5/466 - and on the September issue of the journal. The other mentioned papers: https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(20)30996-3/fulltext https://www.frontiersin.org/...
Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/10/i
The broader effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children are discussed in this ADC Spotlight podcast. ADC’s Senior Editor Rachel Agbeko is joined by paediatrician, epidemiologist and Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Dr Nick Brown; Dr Liz Whittaker, clinical lecturer and consultant paediatric infectious diseases and immunology, Imperial College London; and Professor Russell Viner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Read some of the papers related to this podcast: - Pro...
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor Jonathan Davis and the Edition Editor of the journal Ben Stenson discuss the highlights from the September issue. Read the Fantoms here: https://fn.bmj.com/content/105/5/457 Discover the issue here: fn.bmj.com/content/105/5
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 complexity and beauty in writing is in an Archi report about the management of drooling in children with cer...
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 are non-standard therapies for tension headache (https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/06/19/archd...
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.com/content/early/2020/06/03/archdischild-2020-319197 ). You might also wonder if you’re about to r...
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 those brave souls who consider sending families home with skin decontamination regimens to reduce s...
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 as to how their health needs can be met. ADC’s Senior Editor Rachel Agbeko talks to Dr Amy Stevens ...
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 cardiopulmonary transition at birth in newborns with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), after research with ...
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 ). We’re also addressing a thorny and difficult issue of inhaled budesonide in reducing chronic lung dis...
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 flour and grains. They also discuss what products should be fortified and the mean daily folic acid...
