ADC Podcast

Rare and exotic. Archimedes September 2018

This month, ADC's Social Media and Archimedes Editor Bob Phillips has learned quite a lot about things he never realised he never knew about - like chelation of heavy metals for altering behaviour in people with autistic spectrum disorder (adc.bmj.com/content/early/2018/07/14/archdischild-2018-315338), and if horse beats human in the race to help infants with botulism (adc.bmj.com/content/early/2018/07/14/archdischild-2018-315498).
Not all Archimedes questions need to be this rarified though - earaches, positron emission tomography and chloride channel activators are all just as welcome. Listen, enjoy, and share with your Grandparents just for fun.
https://adc.bmj.com/content/103/9#Archimedes

Atoms: the ADC September 2018 issue in only a few minutes!

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the September 2018 issue in a very short podcast.
Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/103/9/ii.

Chalk stories. Archimedes August 2018

There may be people old enough to remember chalk at school, or young enough to recall playing with massive sticks of it on the tarmac outside. That’s not relevant in this Archimedes though, as we grapple with renal stones and how to get rid of them (adc.bmj.com/content/103/8/806.1) and how much Vitamin D does a preterm need to have nicely crunchy bones (adc.bmj.com/content/103/8/808).
Does reading that make you think “How much wood does a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”
Anyway - enjoy and share. And send in both your Archimedes and tongue twisters for future editions.
https://adc.bmj.com/content/103/8#Archimedes

Atoms: the ADC August 2018 issue in five minutes!

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the August 2018 issue in a very short podcast.
Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/103/8/i.

How to prevent severe acquired subglottic stenosis in neonates surgical interventions

Severe acquired subglottic stenosis is a serious consequence of intubation for mechanical ventilation in neonatal intensive care unit graduates, especially in preterm infants, concludes a case-control study discussed in this podcast. The paper adds that this serious complication may be prevented by minimising trauma during intubations, avoiding recurrent extubation/reintubations and using appropriate sized endotracheal tubes.
Listen to the conversation between the ADC Fetal & Neonatal Associate Editor Jonathan Davis and Rebecca Thomas (Consultant neonatologist at Perth Children's Hospital, Australia) here and read the paper at: https://fn.bmj.com/content/103/4/F349.

Breathe. Archimedes July 2018

After giving you all the heads-up on the process of doing an Archimedes last month, this month we address ways of improving breathing.
First, in the emergency department - we’re asking should you use pred or dex in wheeze (https://adc.bmj.com/content/103/7/707.1) and then in the neonatal intensive care unit where we’re questioning what sort of device to use to puff pressure into those teeny tiny noses? (https://adc.bmj.com/content/103/7/709).
We’ve got a spot of philosophy too.
https://adc.bmj.com/content/103/7#Archimedes

Atoms: the ADC July 2018 issue in five minutes!

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the July 2018 issue in a very short podcast.
Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/103/7/ii.

Reducing neonatal brain injuries in England

The ambition to halve the number of deaths and brain injuries related to births by 2030 was announced by the Department of Health in England, in 2015. The study discussed in this podcast presents a pragmatic case definition and annual incidence rates from data held in the National Neonatal Research Database (NNRD). Chris Gale (Section of Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London, UK), tells ADC Fetal & Neonatal Associate Editor Jonathan Davis how his team is working with the NHS on the ambition of making England "the safest place in the world to have a baby".
Read the study here: fn.bmj.com/content/early/2017/10/22/archdischild-2017-313707.

How would you solve a problem like an Archimedes?

Listen up folks! In the spirit of carefree nuns and clean mountain air, Archimedes has had a burst of newness. This month, we talk to Alisha Burnham, published Archi Author, about the process of doing an Archimedes and how you too can get started.

Transgender children and adolescents: practical and evidence-based approach for paediatricians

Considering the large increase in the number of children and adolescents who question conventional gender expectations and seek to develop a body that is congruent with their gender feelings, how can paediatricians best respond?
Dysphoria v. dysmorphia; or diagnosis v. recognition are some of the concepts and distinctions you’ll hear about in this podcast, which is an absorbing conversation between the ADC’s Editor-in-Chief Nick Brown and Gary Butler, Professor at the University College London Hospital NHS Trust, UK.
For more information about the topics included in this podcast, read the review on the ADC website, which will also be included in the journal’s July 2018 issue:
“Assessment and support of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria” - http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2018/04/26/archdischild-2018-314992.