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July’s #ADC_JC our twitter journal club – 17th July 8-9pm.

Posted on 07 Jul 2013 by

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 […]

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A little bit of formula?

Posted on 09 Jun 2013 by BMJ

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. […]

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I can’t intubate .. can I have a mask?

Posted on 23 Feb 2011 by Bob Phillips

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? […]

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Why the obsession with Vitamin D?

Posted on 07 Feb 2011 by Bob Phillips

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 […]

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Q: Echogenic bowels and new babies

Posted on 31 Jan 2010 by Bob Phillips

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 […]

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