ADC podcast

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....

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/i.

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...

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.

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the June 2018 issue in a very short podcast. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/6/i.

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May 2018 issue in a very short podcast. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/5/i.

What’s the safety and tolerability of the new enriched synthetic surfactant CHF5633? Associate Editor of ADC FN Jonathan Davis is joined by David Sweet (Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast) to discuss a first-in-human clinical study of two human surfactant proteins in preterm babies with respiratory distress syndrome. Read the Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal's open access paper "A first-in-human clinical study of a new SP-B and SP-C enriched synthetic surfactant (CHF5633)...

You wanted interviews, about how to get blood from the feet of neoates? You’ve come to the right spot; this month covers this issue http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/4/401 and also the thorny thing about which growth chart you use - the customised one the mum has been carrying throughout pregnancy or the one you just got from the stationary file in the office http://adc.bmj.com/content/103/4/399.1 ? We also talk how pathology might be worthwhile. And still no singing. Read the Archimedes for...

Professor of Neonatology Colm O'Donnell, University College Dublin, and Neonatologist Emily Kiernan, British Colombia Women's Centre, Vancouver, discuss a randomised trial on skin cleansing in preterm neonates, Clorhexidine vs Iodine, with Jonathan Davis, Associate Editor of ADC FN. Read the free paper “2% chlorhexidine–70% isopropyl alcohol versus 10% povidone–iodine for insertion site cleaning before central line insertion in preterm infants: a randomised trial” here:...

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the March 2018 issue in a very short podcast. Read the highlights on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/103/3/i.

Professor Ulrich Thome, Division of Neonatology, University Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Leipzig, Germany, joins Jonathan Davis to discuss the paper "Neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely low birthweight infants randomised to different PCO2 targets: the PHELBI follow-up study". The Associate Editor of ADC Fetal and Neonatal edition spoke with the author at the Joint European Neonatal Societies meeting in Venice. Read the paper included in the September's 2017...

Associate Editor of ADC Fetal and Neonatal edition Jonathan Davis discusses delayed cord clamping in preterm birth with Jon Dorling (Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit, Queen’s Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, UK), Sam Oddie (Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, Hull York Medical School, University of York, UK). Related articles: Randomised trial of cord clamping and initial stabilisation at very preterm birth - http://fn.bmj.com/content/103/1/F6. Editorial: Timing is everything -...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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:...

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...

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...

The automated control of inspired oxygen in the preterm infants is discussed in this podcast. Associate Editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal edition Jonathan Davis is joined by two authors included in the January 2017 issue of the journal: Christian Poets (Department of Neonatology, University Children's Hospital, Tübingen, Germany) and Peter Dargaville (Department of Paediatrics, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia). Find more details of the ADC...