ADC podcast

Do you always keep your phone on the latest OS? Do you tend to play the alpha releases? Have you only just moved to streaming TV services? Where do you sit on the curve of innovation adoption in medical practice? We chat about this (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/4/401.2) before launching into a discussion of how single parents fare compared to couples in the world of child adoption (read more here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/4/401.1). We stay off the track of medicinal products and devices with a report on the best ways to deal with heatstroke… Summer might come at some point… in our second report (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/4/405).

What we don’t have is a large social media outcry over the lack of music, song and dance in the podcast, but maybe this is the month it starts, or maybe it’s the month when you too submit an Archimedes about something that caught your paediatric eye?

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the May2021 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/5/i

When was the last time you had a twinge in your navicular? Did you know you could develop an eponymous osteochondrosis? And if a child did go and do that - what should you do about it? (Yes. This is a non-stop tease. You’ll have to listen or read here https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/3/303 to find out more.)

Now that almost seamlessness leads into our leader - how do you know what you don’t know - and how to keep abreast of the width of your ignorance (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/3/301.2) and raises two questions in neonatal seizures: 1. Should you use phenobarbitone or levetiracetam to stop fits, and 2. How do you pronounce levetiracetam?(https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/3/301.1)

Do use the opportunity of not knowing to be delighted in the opportunity to learn more, and maybe even submit an Archimedes about it.

Are we reliable, as a podcast and a source of information? What does that word even mean? Well we delve a little deeper into that in this edition (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/2/195.2)

We also ask the question about what degree of weight loss for a healthy newborn really IS normal (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/2/195.1) and while it’s fascinating, I’d advise using this knowledge wisely and approaching guideline writers rather than your midwifery colleagues with your newfound limits of Normal. Our other question swings into the sicker end of babies, and for those who’ve limited recent intubation experience is massively relevant as it’s focussed on using laryngeal mask airways (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/2/197).

Have fun listening to us, and do let us know what you think.

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the April 2021 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/4/i

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the March 2021 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/3/i

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the February2021 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/2/i

ADC Fetal and Neonatal’s Associate Editor Jonathan Davis interviews Haribalakrishna Balasubramanian (Department of Neonatology, Surya Hospitals, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India), and Anitha Ananthan (Department of Neonatology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) about their recent systematic review and meta-analysis on cord milking in preterm delivery.

Read the relevant papers on the ADC website:

https://fn.bmj.com/content/105/6/572

https://fn.bmj.com/content/103/6/F539

We all have moments of crying out “But why on EARTH did they do that study?” after a blisteringly obvious result is revealed … and we chat a little here about why that might be the case (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/1/90.2) but the real story of this episode is all about antiepileptic drugs (AED) and bones.

We start asking the question “Do children on AED get thinner bones?” (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/1/92) and lead from there to the question “Well should we prescribe Vitamin D to all of them?” (https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/1/90.1). If anyone here isn’t aware of it, you should take extra special precautions if you’re prescribing sodium valproate to patients who could become pregnant: the short version would be “prescribe something else”.

Editor-in-Chief of ADC Nick Brown brings you the monthly Atoms - the highlights of the January 2021 issue.

Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/1/i