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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.
Episodes
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the Atoms - the highlights of the March 2022 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/3/i
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Friday Jan 28, 2022
Friday Jan 28, 2022
When we ask our PICO questions, how often do we think about what we’re not asking … and when should we revise them? That’s the core of this little piece which encourages us to think about thinking a bit - https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/2/193.2.
Far less profound, and far more helpful, is the question of if twins (and triplets and higher orders) are at greater risk of RSV just by being doublets (which really should be what we call them) - https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/2/193.1. And almost as useful is if you can stop a child with annoying sniffles having annoying sniffles when all else fails by splashing them with monteleukast - https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/2/197.
So for now, kick back in the snow, tell us what you think, and submit your own following the instructions on the website and you too could be hearing all about yourself spoken by Archi.
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the Atoms - the highlights of the February 2022 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website:
https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/2/i
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
We’re never going to be satisfied with the search of direct randomised evidence in paediatrics - unless we’re working in the hallowed hills of 'paed oncology' of course - so how should we think about the weight of evidence to change things?
There’s a classic lack of direct, trial data when it comes to considering when to give vaccines after TNF-alfa treatments in pregnancy [https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/1/93.1] but what is out there can be digested and considered and given as a pithy conclusion … as can the consideration of radiotherapy for a non-malignant condition … (something we’ve tended to shy away from after treating - effectively - ringworm with scalp focussed zapping and accidentally creating meningiomas where there was only an annoying fungal infection before) … should you block or blast in Grave’s disease? [https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/1/97]
Enjoy, tell us what you think, and submit your own following the instructions on the website and you too could be subject to this sort of internet delight [https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/11/1135.2].
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2022 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website:
https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/1/i
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
We visit the land of diagnostics in our thinking again this month, deciding when a test can really help us by pressing on to make, or exclude, a diagnosis, and when it simply nudges us a bit one way or another (YOU’LL NEED TO FIND LINK - STARTS There’s something unnerving about getting a test result. And is title is ‘Spins and snouts’)
But then we leap away from it, like a young gazelle or enthusiastic neutrophil, to ask the question “Should all infants with delayed cord separation be investigated for leucocyte adhesion deficiency?” [https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/12/1233] You might already guess the answer - nothing in medicine is an all or nothing - except when it is - but it’s an excellent interview and explanation. The other topic takes in the land of spinal surgery and asks if it can help lung function in (some) kids with cerebral palsy…[https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/12/1231.1]
Enjoy, tell us what you think, and submit your own following the instructions on the website and you too may have an interview on Her Majesty’s Own Internet to share with your Aunties.
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2021 issue.
Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website:
https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/12/i
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the November 2021 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/106/6/571
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Other related material mentioned in the podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/perinatal-management-of-extreme-preterm-birth-before-27-weeks-of-gestation-a-framework-for-practice
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the September 2021 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/106/5/457
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Other related papers mentioned in the podcast:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2780513
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Extracting urine has been the subject of Archimedes in the past, but this month wee (geddit?) have questions relating to when you’ve found a UTI. Could you treat a wee one with oral rather than IV antibiotics? (Full answer here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/11/1135.1) Should you make all the little ones with UTI to bend around and take a few mls of CSF from them? (Read on … https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/11/1138). Good questions - and more are possible too - keep sending them.
We also consider how things can be subject to our alternative ways of thinking about new and old things, and that, for almost everything to be honest, there’s not a level playing field. And we could do with understanding and working on that (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/11/1135.2).
Enjoy, feedback, and submit (following the instructions on the website though. No one wants to waste time and have to go back and rewrite things over and over again do they?).