ADC Podcast

Atoms: the ADC January 2018 highlights with Nick Brown

Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2018 issue in a few words.
Read the highlights on the ADC website: http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/1/i.

The Archimedes Podcast: the safety of ACE-inhibitors in children

The January 2018 Archimedes podcast contains all sorts of fun looking at the safety of ACE-inhibitors in children - http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/1/106.1, squaring up to the Rule of Three (malaria tests in this instance) - http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/1/1.1 - and we also talk validation and revalidation in an attempt to predict the future http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/1/106.2.
The ADC Archimedes podcast, home of the best evidence-paediatrics chat, is presented by Bob Phillips, the Social Media and Archimedes Editor.
http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/1#Archimedes

The Archimedes Podcast: overdiagnosis - good or bad?

Stepping back from doing things is the theme of the December 2017’s Archimedes podcast with questions of how not to engage in pointless practices at the forefront of our minds. Read about the lack of advantage of high-dose aspirin in Kawasaki disease here - http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/12/1180.1 - and follow-up x-rays for round pneumonia here - http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/12/1182 -, whose leading author, Patrick McCrossan (Paediatrics, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK), is interviewed in this podcast.
The ADC Archimedes podcast, home of the best evidence-paediatrics chat, is presented by Bob Phillips, the Social Media and Archimedes Editor.
http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/12#Archimedes

Introducing ADC’s new editors. The highlights of the December 2017 issue with Nick Brown

Nick Brown is the new Editor-in-Chief of Archives and Disease in Childhood. Listen to his vision for the journal in this podcast, which will bring you Atoms - the highlights of this issue in a few words.
Read the highlights of the December 2017 issue here: http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/12/i.

The Archimedes Podcast: necrotising varicella and lumbar punctures in meningitis

The October 2017’s Archimedes podcast includes answers to “Have you ever wondered if it might be worth trying to do an Archi?” and “What came first, the ‘brufen or the necrotic flesh?” along with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis and musings on the nature of evidence-based medicine. Read more about varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories here - http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/10/988.1 - and how to interpret delayed CSF results here - http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/10/990.
The ADC Archimedes podcast, home of the best evidence-paediatrics chat, is presented by Bob Phillips, the Social Media and Archimedes Editor.

The Archimedes Podcast: plant oils for babies; better sleep in children with intellectual disability

In the September 2017 podcast, we have two evidence-based cases, an exposition of shared decision making, and a zingier feel to the podcast which we’d like you to appreciate fully. You can read the full articles on plant oils for baby soft skin here -
http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/9/873 - and melatonin for sleep disturbances in children with intellectual disability here -
http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/9/870 - along with our blog discussing all manner of EBM things at blogs.bmj.com/adc.
The ADC Archimedes podcast, home of the best evidence-paediatrics chat, is presented by Bob Phillips, the Social Media and Archimedes Editor.

The role of prenatal steroids at 34–36 weeks of gestation

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University of Cambridge Gordon Smith discusses a leading article from the July Edition of the Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal edition with Associate Editor Jonathan Davis.
The article states that administration of betamethasone to women with threatened preterm delivery at 34–36 weeks of gestational age to reduce the risk of neonatal respiratory morbidity may cause long-term harm through effects on the infant’s brain.
This podcast includes a postscript with a response from the authors of the paper discussed.
Read the full paper here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2016-312333.

Thin-for-gestational age infants and neurodevelopmental outcome

Associate Editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal edition Jonathan Davis is joined by two authors included in the May 2017's issue of the journal: Deirdre Murray and Louise Kenny (both from the Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research, Cork University Maternity Hospital, Ireland). They are two of the authors of ‘Thin-for-gestational age infants are at increased risk of neurodevelopmental delay at 2 years’. Read the full article: http://fn.bmj.com/content/102/3/F197.
The Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort Study was funded by the National Children's Research Centre. The SCOPE study was funded by the Health Research Board, Ireland.
More from the ADC FN May 2017's edition here: http://fn.bmj.com/content/102/3.

The Archimedes Podcast, August 2017: towards evidence based medicine for paediatricians

We're back! The ADC Archimedes podcast, home of the best evidence-paediatrics chat in Soundcloud has been reborn. This month, Bob Phillips, the Social Media and Archimedes Editor, talks runny poo and how to reduce it (see 'Probiotics in acute infectious diarrhoea: should we run with it?' here http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/8/782) and what to pre-med a prem in the own words of Tim van Hasselt, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, (read 'What is the best sedative to give as premedication for neonatal intubation?' here http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/8/780.1).
There's also our usual scintillating rant on something evidencey (see http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/8/780.2).
http://adc.bmj.com

Global Child Health - Strengthening the paediatric workforce for better health outcomes

Paediatric training and the practice of paediatrics is built on the bedrock of ensuring best possible health outcomes for all children, optimising opportunity for those without full health and contributing to a voice, in advocacy, for children. In the world’s high-income countries (HICs), child health outcomes are comparatively good, and the paediatric workforce well trained to manage the health issues of children. Paediatric training and continuing professional development is generally under the authority of paediatric societies or colleges. Such organisations are well funded and supported, have long traditions of curriculum and resource development with supervisors trained in postgraduate training and supervision. They have a history of matching training needs to the health needs of their children. Some attempt at supporting advocacy and a voice for children is made, and a sense that paediatricians do all they can for the underprivileged is instilled during training. Such approaches are right and proper, but do they miss something fundamental?
The question is the starting point of this podcast. ADC Global Child Health editor Nick Brown interviews Professor Kevin Forsyth (Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Flinders University School of Medicine, Adelaide, Australia) about his article published in the June 2017 edition of ADC.
The article 'Strengthening the global paediatric workforce: the need for a global strategy to ensure better health outcomes for children' is accessible on the ADC website: http://adc.bmj.com/content/102/6/585.