The first Archives of Disease in Childhood twitter journal club was last month and it was a great success. We had around 40 people involved in the hour-long twitter chat (#ADC_JC) – it was engaging and exciting to be involved in an online discussion with so many paediatric health professionals. For July’s #ADC_JC we are […]
Category: neonates
A little bit of formula?
Exclusive breastfeeding is regarded by WHO and by most, if not all, paediatric academies, as the ideal for newborns and infants up to 6 months old. It is also recommended that breastfeeding begins as soon as possible after birth. That is why the small pilot study by Flaherman et al is both interesting and controversial. […]
I can’t intubate .. can I have a mask?
Not to obscure your deeply shamed face (I know, I’ve had it happen …) but a laryngeal mask, one of those disturbing bits of equipment anesthetists use when the operations’s not long enough to enjoy a nice cup of tea during an operation. Can an LMA be a reasonable choice in neonatal resuscitation? […]
Why the obsession with Vitamin D?
So, in the dark and cold climes of an early Northern Spring, Archi has been assailed by questions of vitamin D. There are, it is claimed, near-miraculous things from Vitamin D sufficiency – less cancer, less heart disease, less rickets. Well, I’ll buy the last one, but the others? And does any child really need […]
Q: Echogenic bowels and new babies
It was a vogue around the start of regular antenatal ultrasound scanning to note everything, associate wildly and some up with ‘antenatal markers of disease’, as I recollect. Some of these things turned out to be quite useful (nose bones, for instance, or their absence) and others still confuse me … like the ‘echogenic focus […]