Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the April 2024 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/4/i Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite platform to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc...
Mar 19, 2024•7 min•Ep. 341
None of us want bad things to happen; we went into this career to reduce the number or severity of badness for babies, children and young people after all. But how to tell if our actions are leading to more adverse effects… it’s touched on in the podcast but read more here ( https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/2/167.2 ) We’re also thinking about balancing badness - the possible problems of NSAIDs alongside the problems from PPIs used trying to prevent them. There’s a really good read and discussion ...
Mar 11, 2024•13 min•Ep. 340
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the March 2024 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/i 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 leav...
Feb 26, 2024•13 min•Ep. 339
Honey, sweetie pie, babe … all the sorts of slushy nominative phrases that get thrown into the droning movies and teen-focussed telly programmes we probably love to watch. But honey, the bear-beloved treat, could that help with hay fever? An intrepid evidence-based gang tried to answer the question for you ( https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/1/71.1 ) And we also chat in this podcast about the problems of cheap boots and damp toes (indirectly). ( https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/1/71.2 ) We would lo...
Feb 19, 2024•10 min•Ep. 338
When treating children with cancer and febrile neutropenia, you may ask yourself, "Are urinary cultures a waste of time?" Prof. Bob Phillips (1) of the ADC Archimedes podcast joins ADC Spotlight host Dr. Rachel Agbeko to reflect on this question, basing their discussion on the paper, "Role of urine culture in paediatric patients with cancer with fever and neutropenia: a prospective observational study". They consider the strength of evidence for urine culture testing in such cases, and whether t...
Feb 05, 2024•26 min•Ep. 337
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 2024 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/2/i 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 l...
Jan 22, 2024•15 min•Ep. 336
Proving something is safe, or that bad things don’t happen, is always hard. Really hard. And when people turn to the published literature to investigate adverse effects you have to send them much praise - like the team have done in this month's Archimedes when looking at if baclofen causes seizures ( https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/1028.1 ). The other thing we often struggle with is how much we can lump stuff together in a systematic review ( https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/1028.2 ). So we...
Dec 29, 2023•10 min•Ep. 335
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2024 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/1/i 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 le...
Dec 21, 2023•20 min•Ep. 334
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/i 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 ...
Nov 29, 2023•14 min•Ep. 333
The world advanced through the Next Great Thing. Like the C5 electric scooter, Hindenberg air ship and velocipedes. It’s always easy to see the next great thing being ignored when you look backwards in time - but what about looking forwards? Is video-assisted thoracoscopic draining of complicated infected pleural fluid really any better than a tiny plastic pipe and squirting in some fibrin muncher? ( https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/11/940.1 ) We chat about that, and your commoner medical devices...
Nov 06, 2023•11 min•Ep. 332
This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Dr. Catherine Branthwaite to discuss the viewpoint, "Safeguarding concerns in the Illegal Migration Bill". They speak about the key points of the bill, its scientific shortcomings, and put it into the context of global rights of children. Read the paper: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2023/05/15/archdischild-2023-325589 (1) Paediatrics, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK The ADC Spotlight podcast is the Archives ...
Oct 27, 2023•24 min•Ep. 331
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/11/i 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 ...
Oct 20, 2023•10 min•Ep. 330
In this month's Archimedes section of ADC: there are a lot of things in life that are obvious like crash barriers making roads safer, giving iprotropium for wheezy bronchiolitis or using C-reactive protein to differentiate bacterial and viral infections… oh wait … well … one out of three … This podcast is all about how you sometimes need to state the obvious ( https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/10/862.2 ) and sometimes you need to question it ( https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/10/862.1 ). Have a lis...
Oct 13, 2023•9 min•Ep. 329
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the July 2023 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/108/4/323 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-podc...
Oct 06, 2023•23 min•Ep. 328
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/10/865 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...
Sep 26, 2023•12 min•Ep. 327
This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Dr. Ian Sinha (1) and Dr. Alice Lee (1) to discuss their review, "Child poverty and health inequalities in the UK: a guide for paediatricians." They provide insight into the varying definitions of poverty, and how paediatricians can make the most difference in their communities. Read the paper: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/2/94 (1) Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK The ADC Spotlight podcast is the Archive...
Sep 19, 2023•41 min•Ep. 326
Back to the cut and thrust of clinical neonatology for the September 2023 Archimedes, where we visit the challenge of sugar-free babies again. How do you move forward with uncertainty about the adverse effects of medicines but significant problems with the adverse effects of disease processes? [ doi 10.1136/archdischild-2023-325726 ] We also flicker our minds back to the Olden Days, when analysers were simpler and viral PCRs were Special And Rare. And where Jones criteria were more in evidence t...
Sep 07, 2023•12 min•Ep. 325
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/9/i 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 ...
Aug 17, 2023•14 min•Ep. 324
This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Dr. Jonathan Coutts (1), to discuss a viewpoint titled, "Toxic and addictive effects of nicotine on children and adolescents: are we sleepwalking into a public health disaster?" In their conversation they touch on reported statistics relating to adolescent vaping behaviour, EVALI syndrome, and the often-quoted "95% safer" rating of e-cigarettes versus standard cigarette consumption. Read the paper: https://adc.bmj.com/content/earl...
Aug 03, 2023•22 min•Ep. 323
Welcome to a new world of Archimedes mini-pods; for those days when you don’t have an Archimedes to listen to or explore, you can pick up the latest issue and train your critically appraising eye on another article. This month we look at one of the best descriptions of the development (and limitations) of a multivariable prediction model we’ve seen in some time [DOI 10.1136/archdischild-2022-325158 - https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/8/608]. Prediction - and what to do about it - has been a longst...
Jul 27, 2023•4 min•Ep. 322
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/8/i 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 lea...
Jul 20, 2023•15 min•Ep. 321
This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Claire Zhang (1), to discuss a scoping review of the literature on children's use of healthcare in the UK, and ethnic differences and inequities found there. Children's healthcare outcomes are an important factor in health across the general lifespan, but most studies on healthcare utilisation deal only with adults, so this is a topic with a need for further exploration. Read the paper: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/7/518 The AD...
Jul 05, 2023•30 min•Ep. 320
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/7/i 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/g...
Jun 20, 2023•9 min•Ep. 319
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the May 2023 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/108/3/209 Additional links: Nasal High-Flow Therapy during Neonatal Endotracheal Intubation https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116735 Nebulised surfactant to reduce severity of respiratory distress: a blinded, parallel, randomised controlled trial https://fn.bmj.com/content/104/3/F3...
Jun 15, 2023•21 min•Ep. 318
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/6/i 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...
May 26, 2023•13 min•Ep. 317
If you’ve ever wondered why tests sometimes don’t really work when you start using them then you’ll really want to listen to this episode .. or read this instead - https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/5/411.2 Or maybe you’ve lain awake at night worrying about how common portal vein thrombosis is in neonates and what that might mean for the baby … again, you’ll really want to get your ears attached to this podcast and take a few minutes to admire the search strategy here - https://adc.bmj.com/content/...
May 09, 2023•10 min•Ep. 316
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/5/i 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 ...
Apr 25, 2023•12 min•Ep. 315
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the March 2023 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/108/2/95 Additional links: Caffeine Therapy for Apnea of Prematurity https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa054065 Survival Without Disability to Age 5 Years After Neonatal Caffeine Therapy for Apnea of Prematurity https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1104870 Survival With...
Apr 11, 2023•22 min•Ep. 314
A patient and their family will often ask the most sensible, thoughtful questions and we’ll head to the evidence to find that research doesn’t quite fit the bill. We discuss this in both the abstract ‘what’s the methodological issues here’ bit of Achimedes (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/4/323.2) and bring it to life via our case of the specialist core exercises system (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/4/323.1). Have a listen and find out more. We would love for you to be involved in Archi [adc....
Apr 03, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 313
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the April 2023 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/4/i 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 leav...
Mar 27, 2023•12 min•Ep. 312
