Adc Podcast

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/1/i

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2019 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/12/i

This month brings big decisions and how to make them in our critical appraisal note (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/11/1114.2) and this flows seamlessly into the questions too... almost like there’s some planning involved. We’re asking if prenatal echo can tell us who will need emergency atrial septostomies to make birth as safe to home as close to home a reality (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/11/1114.1.abstract), and if apparently asymptomatic babies and children with malrotation really need and operation to untwirl their guts (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/11/1116). If these get you excited to write your own story, head on over to the instructions to authors and find out how https://adc.bmj.com/pages/authors/#archimedes Don’t forget to like, subscribe, review us and let us know how lovely we are via all our social media too (please).

What if children could vote earlier? And before that, could they make themselves heard by entrusting their parents with their vote? Professor Neena Modi (Imperial College London, UK) says ‘yes’ and ‘yes’. Listen to the thought-provoking conversation with ADC’s Senior Editor Rachel Agbeko. The two paediatricians discuss the evidence behind these proposals and the role of doctors in the process of giving children a voice. Read the related paper on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website (free for a month): https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/05/16/archdischild-2018-316523. There’s also a letter on this topic. “Age of consent?” is co-authored by a young person, Joseph Brown, as well as co-peer-reviewed by young people: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/09/17/archdischild-2019-318106.

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2019 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/11/i

Does bronchiectasis trouble you at night? Or during the day? Or the weekends? Would you like to brush up on the best evidence to treat and prevent exacerbations? Pop onto this podcast or read more here https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/20/archdischild-2019-317562 You’ll I’m sure be wondering about how much you can extrapolate from the adult data into the kids, and this short appraisal note on our blog might help you https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2019/08/22/neonates-are-not-tiny-children/ Bearing that in mind, the use of coffee to keep bronchi-babes out of the ICU will be of great interest to the student of EBM. So … you can swig in the summary we have here on how good it seems to be: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/20/archdischild-2019-317668 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, review us and let us know how lovely we are via all our social media too.

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2019 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/10/i

Discussion of a cross over RCT of oxygen automation in nasal high flow oxygen and the associated editorial. ADC Fetal & Neonatal Associate Editor Jonathan Davis talks to Charles Roehr (Oxford University Hospitals); Peter Reynolds (St. Peters Hospital, Chertsy, Surrey); and Peter Dargaville (Royal Hobart, Tasmania, Australia). Read the paper 'Randomised cross-over study of automated oxygen control for preterm infants receiving nasal high flow': https://fn.bmj.com/content/104/4/F366. Read the editorial 'Automated oxygen control in the preterm infant: automation yes, but we need intelligence': https://fn.bmj.com/content/104/4/F346

We have all manner of interesting stuff this month - if you want to keep troublesome cold sores away you can read the extra stuff here http://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-317249 after listening to our summary - if you want to help crying colic-y babies with probiotics you may want to brush up here http://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-317368 You may also want to write your own Archi - which is brilliant! Just make sure you know how you’re incorporating evidence, expert experience and expert opinion though - again you can listen or read about it here https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-317948 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, review us and let us know how lovely we are via all our social media too.

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2019 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/9/i

Last month we asked about newborn baby checks being enhanced with pulse oximetry - this month we’re asking “What should you do with a sacral dimple?” (The answer is not “Throw it in the brig until it’s sober”). The answer - in terms of ultrasounding or not - can be found here (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/8/816.1). You might also be wondering about the mineralisation of your jejunally fed kids too… I know I’ve spent many minutes wondering about how to spell that .. and if copper really is a trace element of importance beyond it’s pretty rusting. This knowledge thirst too can be slaked - here (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/8/817) And if that’s not enough, we chat about the sometimes tricky issue of balancing the benefits against the harms of an intervention (or test, or measurement), which involves maths, but only those we teach to primary school children (https://adc.bmj.com/node/208810) If you do want to know other things, and we’ve not covered them, why just write your own Archi and submit it to us?

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2019 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/8/i

How do we approach parents about organ donation? In the second episode of the ADC Spotlight, Rachel Agbeko invites an intensivist, Dr Susan Bratton, (Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA) and a psychologist, Dr Anne-Sophie Darlington (School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, UK) to talk about end of life care for children and organ donation. They are the authors of two papers available for free for a month on the ADC website: - Parents’ experiences of requests for organ and tissue donation: The value of asking: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/05/10/archdischild-2018-316382 - Bereaved ICU Parental End of Life Care Goals: Including Organ Donation Regardless of Eligibility: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/05/25/archdischild-2019-317214.

All over the world, tonight, you can hear the sound of babies being examined for covert abnormalities. One of those tests would be the click-hip-thing, one pulse oximetry. Can we make pulse oximetry better though - well here’s an Archi that asks just that (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/5/504). More babies could be found in those very special fish tanks with portholes - popping them out of those and into cots would be nicer for the families but maybe harder for the smallest children to grow and stay stable in temperature. The question you’re asking is clearly ‘but is 1.6kg big enough?’ … (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/7/707.1) To start with we question the value of knowing things (https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2019/04/25/look-away-now-if-you-dont-want-to-know-the-results/) but if you do want to know things, and we’ve not covered them, why not have a crack at your own Archi and submit it to us?

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2019 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/7/i

Welcome to the new ADC Spotlight podcast! We'll be covering areas that don’t usually get much attention or might be taken for granted with the goal of promoting dialogue. In this first podcast, Rachel Agbeko, Associate Editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood, is joined by Jennifer Preston, Senior Patient and Public Involvement Manager at the University of Liverpool, Hugh Davies, Paediatrician and Research Ethics Advisor at the Health Research Authority and Bob Phillips, Paediatric Oncologist and Social Media and Archimedes Editor for ADC. They are the authors of four papers about research with children, which are part of a series being published between April and July 2019 by ADC (https://adc.bmj.com/): - In the April issue the Leading article ’Research beyond the hospital walls’ and the review ‘Making research central to good paediatric practice’. - In May the review ‘How to involve children and young people (CYP) in what is, after all, their research’. - In June the review ‘A framework to help de

The application of the best available evidence sometimes leaves you deciding which systematic review of RCTs is the best, and sometimes scrabbling in the tattered remnants of case reports. This podcast takes you across that spectrum from thinking about zinc supplementation for pneumonia in western Europe (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/6/605.1) to the removal of a VP shunt in a child with appendicitis (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/6/607 )… who also have a VP shunt, obviously. And we reference Baby Shark and LazyTown too (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/6/605.2). Why not have a listen, wonder at the marvellousness of medicine, and give us your thoughts via the website or Twitter?

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2019 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/6/i

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2019 issue. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/104/5/i

Sometimes there are days where you wish you’d not done something, and for many of us, those will be the days after drinking on an evening/night/early-morning out. (And for those who live in Oxford; it’s NEVER the kebab van. It’s the beer.) But there are gems of wisdom to be found by those who observe the socially unfettered antics, as you’ll hear if you listen in. You’ll also get to learn about how best to manage an asymptomatic twin if their sib is admitted with group B strep disease, [https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/4/401.1] or if a baby with a simple pneumothorax can be cured with more oxygen than usual [https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/4/405] Why not have a listen, ponder your drinking habits, and give us your thoughts via the website or Twitter?