When treating children with cancer and febrile neutropenia, you may ask yourself, "Are urinary cultures a waste of time?"

Prof. Bob Phillips (1) of the ADC Archimedes podcast joins ADC Spotlight host Dr. Rachel Agbeko to reflect on this question, basing their discussion on the paper, "Role of urine culture in paediatric patients with cancer with fever and neutropenia: a prospective observational study". They consider the strength of evidence for urine culture testing in such cases, and whether there is an opportunity to reduce the burden on young cancer patients and their families.

Read the paper:

https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/982

(1) Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK

The ADC Spotlight podcast is the Archives of Disease in Childhood podcast covering areas that don’t usually get much attention or might be taken for granted in children's health. This series is produced by Letícia Amorim and edited by Brian O'Toole.

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Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February 2024 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/2/i 

Proving something is safe, or that bad things don’t happen, is always hard. Really hard. And when people turn to the published literature to investigate adverse effects you have to send them much praise - like the team have done in this month's Archimedes when looking at if baclofen causes seizures (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/1028.1).

The other thing we often struggle with is how much we can lump stuff together in a systematic review (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/1028.2). So we chat about that. If you’re comparing fruit salad with potato salad, it’s probably fine to have apples and oranges (and banana and kiwi) in the same bowl. If you’re looking to see which apple to bake in a pie, you don’t want your crab apples in with your pippins and Granny Smiths. Baking tips can be found in this podcast too, it transpires. 

We would love for you to be involved in Archi (https://adc.bmj.com/pages/authors/#archimedes) - just ask the questions that your patients are offering you - and tell us how you’re finding the podcast offerings.

Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2024 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/1/i 

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the December 2023 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/12/i 

The world advanced through the Next Great Thing. Like the C5 electric scooter, Hindenberg air ship and velocipedes. It’s always easy to see the next great thing being ignored when you look backwards in time - but what about looking forwards? Is video-assisted thoracoscopic draining of complicated infected pleural fluid really any better than a tiny plastic pipe and squirting in some fibrin muncher? (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/11/940.1)

We chat about that, and your commoner medical devices (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/11/940.2) on this month’s podcast.

We would love for you to be involved in Archi (https://adc.bmj.com/pages/authors/#archimedes) - just ask the questions that your patients are offering you - and tell us how you’re finding the podcast offerings.

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This month, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, Senior Editor of ADC, is joined by Dr. Catherine Branthwaite to discuss the viewpoint, "Safeguarding concerns in the Illegal Migration Bill".

They speak about the key points of the bill, its scientific shortcomings, and put it into the context of global rights of children.

Read the paper: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2023/05/15/archdischild-2023-325589 

(1) Paediatrics, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

The ADC Spotlight podcast is the Archives of Disease in Childhood podcast covering areas that don’t usually get much attention or might be taken for granted in children's health. This series is produced by Letícia Amorim and edited by Brian O'Toole.

Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe to Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832 

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr. Nick Brown, and Senior Editor of ADC, Dr. Rachel Agbeko, bring you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the November 2023 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/11/i 

In this month's Archimedes section of ADC: there are a lot of things in life that are obvious like crash barriers making roads safer, giving iprotropium for wheezy bronchiolitis or using C-reactive protein to differentiate bacterial and viral infections… oh wait … well … one out of three …

This podcast is all about how you sometimes need to state the obvious (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/10/862.2) and sometimes you need to question it (https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/10/862.1). Have a listen and consider what you’d do.

We would love for you to be involved in Archimedes (https://adc.bmj.com/pages/authors/#archimedes) - just ask the questions that your patients are offering you - and tell us how you’re finding the podcast offerings.

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ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor, Jonathan Davis, and the Edition Editor of the journal, Ben Stenson, discuss the highlights from the July 2023 issue. The Fantoms article: https://fn.bmj.com/content/108/4/323 

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