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ADC Podcast
The Archives of Disease (ADC) podcast is your go-to source for the latest in paediatrics and child health. The podcast episodes cover the editor’s highlights of each issue, detailed coverage of specific articles, and insightful interviews with authors and specialists in the field. ADC - adc.bmj.com - is an international paediatric journal from BMJ Group and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), publishing the latest research in paediatrics and child health. Subscribe now or listen on your favourite podcast platform to enhance your understanding of paediatric and child health.
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Episodes
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2021 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website:
https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/11/i
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Have you ever had a question you thought … “OOOO! That’s an Archimedes in waiting that is!”. Well, join in the footsteps of those who have climbed the craggy path through submission, review, Editorial Board and onwards to the sunny pastures of ‘Online First’ and eventually the Paper Journal (where, like one of our colleagues, your Gran can try and order one from the newsagents because she’s so proud of you).
The Grannies being delighted this month will be able to learn all about if their migrainous adolescent grandchildren will benefit from magnesium to reduce their headache frequency of severity (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/10/1027), and far from benign taught to suck eggs they may have their perception of weaning foods challenged when it comes to egg introduction to the diet of four month olds (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/10/1024.1). Their wisdom will be already full of the knowledge that just because something’s always been this way doesn’t make it right, but they may like to hear about how we think momentum and inertia apply in medicine too (and here’s the ship-related podcast that’s mentioned: https://timharford.com/2019/11/cautionary-tales-ep-1-danger-rocks-ahead/)
https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/10#Archimedes
https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/10/1024.2
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the October 2021 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website:
https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/10/i
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Have you ever wanted to get your Archimedes answer to a clinical question into our journal and onto this podcast? Did you worry that because it was about a strange device for making balloons blow up by using your nose that we’d laugh it out of the park? Well - you need not have worried - but it’s already been done (see https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/9/923.1). Same with uncertainties about single-dose old-fashioned UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvul transferase disruptors (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/9/925). I’ll leave this as a tease for you to have to listen to find out which antibiotic is being explored here. We cover some thoughts on using older or re-focussed therapies too (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/9/923.2).
SO - don’t hold back from your clinical question dream - crack on and submit, following our instructions to authors after you’ve spotted a great question even if it has an old (but interesting) answer.
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2021 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/9/i
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
This podcast is a roundtable discussion of recent papers on Laryngeal mask use in neonates. ADC Editor Jonathan Davis (NICU Perth Children's Hospital) interviews Charles Rohr (Southmead Hopsital, Bristol, England; Newborn Services, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK), Calum Roberts (Monash Hospital, Melbourne, Australia), and Joyce O'shea (Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow, Scotland)
Related articles from ADC Fetal and Neonatal edition:
https://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2021/04/21/archdischild-2020-319398
https://fn.bmj.com/content/106/3/342
https://fn.bmj.com/content/106/3/336
Other papers mentioned in this podcast:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2005333
https://www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=380574&isReview=true
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
The deliciousness of a fresh home-grown strawberry is tricky to top, isn’t it? And the sense of disappointment when you realise a slug has felt the same way about it? This glimpse into my gastronomic preferences also relates to a critical appraisal note from this month (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/8/821.2)
It’s shockingly relevant to one of the articles too - a belief changer perhaps - about ultrasound screening in Beckwith-Weiderman syndrome (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/8/824). The other might make you wish hard for tomorrow when the sun is shining over your resuscitation dolly [HT to all the musical theatre kids there] and how often we need to learn how to bounce up and down and sing about elephants (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/8/821.1).
You too can have months of hard work summarised in a few minutes by someone with a sketchy understanding if you submit an Archimedes by following our instructions to authors after you’ve spotted a great question that needs an answer.
Friday Jul 30, 2021
Friday Jul 30, 2021
It’s the height of summer in the UK and, of course, this makes our thoughts turn to concussion, slipped upper femoral epiphyses and proxy outcomes. (Well, to be honest, I’m not sure it really does... but if you do play out more maybe concussion is more likely and certainly some orthopaedic things are?)
SUFE is something we do occasionally see and want to prevent really long term consequences. If one side has slipped though, should the surgical team go in and pin the other in place? (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/7/715.1)
And of course one of the issues with this sort of thing is that the outcomes we really want to see many be many, many years away. Can we use an ‘early warning’, surrogate or proxy for that outcome? And do you know what that even means? (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/7/715.2)
If people, rather than UFEs, slip, then banging heads and getting concussions are not uncommon. Rugby league has introduced a system of head injury assessment to improve the safety of players after such events. But should those young contenders in Academy sides, like other teens, stay away from media screens to reduce the chance of problems after? (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/7/720)
All these questions are addressed, if not answered, this month. And you can throw your own Q&A into the ring too - submit an Archimedes by following our instructions and have fun (in the sun, but with a hat and lots of sunscreen on).
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2021 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/8/i
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Editor-in-Chief of ADC, Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2021 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/7/i