ADC Podcast

Atoms: the highlights from the ADC July 2020

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

Keep on appraising. Archimedes June 2020

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 staph skin infections (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/6/603)
We want to know how you’re thinking about evidence-based practice too - let us know or send us your Archi!
As with last month we would like to thank you: stay home. Go To Work. Save Lives.

How can we meet the health needs of child refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants?

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 (Health Education England Yorkshire) and the ADC Health Policy editor, John Puntis,
Read the related review:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-316614
The accompanying paper:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-316474

Atoms: the highlights from the ADC June 2020

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

Physiologically based cord clamping in lambs with congenital diaphragmatic hernia

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 lambs.
Read it on the ADC Fetal and Neonatal website: https://fn.bmj.com/content/105/1/18

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Fantoms. Highlights from the March issue

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

Doing right in difficult circumstances. Archimedes May 2020

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 disease, but not increasing mortality. (https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2020/03/26/archdischild-2019-318762 )
Stay Home. Go To Work. Save Lives.

Atoms: the highlights from the ADC May 2020

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

Folic acid fortification of flour and grains - why the debate?

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 intake increase fortification should achieve across the population.
The fortification of flour with folic acid (vitamin B9) should help prevent neural tube defects (NTDs).
Read the paper for free on the ADC website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/1/6

Our commonest breathing difficulties. Archimedes March 2020

How do we know when something it good enough? Close enough that we can use product A instead of product B? Well, that’s the issue we’ve addressed in our methods chat this month (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/3/304.2) We’ve also looked at what used to be the things that sprang to mind with breathing difficulties; bronchiolitis and asthma. For bronchs - what dose of high flow oxygen (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/3/304.1)? For asthma - could macrolides save the day (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/3/306)?
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