ADC podcast

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

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 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

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.

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

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

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)? Have a listen, comment, subscribe, review us and let us know how lovely we are via all our social media. Will will appreciate it lots.

Jonathan Davis talks to Professor Yuan Shi - Department of Neonatology, Chongqing Medical University Affiliated Children's Hospital, China, who recently published recommendations for pregnant and new born babies in suspected infection with Covid-19. They also discuss what signs to look out for in patients. Read the letter on the on the ADC website (https://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2020/03/04/archdischild-2020-318996). It was accepted on February 20, 2020 and first published March 4, 2020.

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown and Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the April 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/105/4/i

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the March 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: adc.bmj.com/content/105/3/i

The delight we all have in neonates spills over this issue, where we tackle the thorny issues of QTc prolongation with domperidone (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/2/202) and how best to manage the concerns of a midwife over an raised cord blood lactate (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/2/200.1). Sadly, how to remember how to calculate QTc or work in a constructive interprofessional manner aren’t all cleared up. We also consider what isn’t being said when people write (https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/2/200.2) with a focus on clinical research reports. Have a listen, comment, subscribe, review us and let us know how lovely we are via all our social media. Will will appreciate it lots.

Later than usual, this is the podcast about the Archimedes of the December 2019 issue. Children seem to throw up because they are poorly, or because they are excited, or because they are hot, or because they had too many fizzy sweeties, or because they know you’ve just had the car cleaned. So how do we manage a child who’s had a little head bump and has thrown up once? Find out in this podcast (and read more here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/12/1231) You can also discover if slow and steady is better than quick and often, at least when it comes to vancomycin dosing and tiny people (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/12/1229.1 ). The answer’s obvious, of course, but .. well. Both could ‘obviously’ be correct, couldn’t they? And we also talk about how to know if two things which seems to have changed are really the same from a different viewpoint, sort of. Well, it’s a tricky idea but one which is worth getting to understand (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/12/1229.2 ) When you’ve listened, please comment, and make sure you subscribe, review us and let us know how lovely we are via all our social media. Will will appreciate it lots.

The infant mortality rate in USA exceeds that of most other developed nations, ranking 26th among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. This ADC Spotlight podcast is about inequity and health. Professor Heather Burris is the first author of the paper “Racial disparities in preterm birth in the US; a biosensor of physical and social environmental exposures” (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/10/931). Professor Richard David is the author of the accompanying editorial “Inequity at Birth and Population Health” (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/10/929). Both can be found in the October edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood and on our website at adc.bmj.com.

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown and Senior Editor Rachel Agbeko bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 2020 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/2/i

MRI is essential to the clinical management of children and young people with brain tumours and it is common practice to show these to patients and families, but how they emotionally respond to seeing brain tumour imaging? Rachel Agbeko explores the qualitative study "Patients’ and parents’ views on brain tumour MRIs" with the leading author of the paper Natalie Tyldesley-Marshall (Research fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK) and Dr Gail Halliday, Consultant in Paediatric Oncology, Great North Children’s Hospital, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You can read the paper FREE for a month: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/08/07/archdischild-2019-317306