Learn what to expect when you visit your child in the Post-Anesthetic Care Unit (PACU), sometimes called recovery.
Recommendations for helping your child navigate through the health-care system and gain independence in managing their own health care.
Find out what is involved in in-hospital hemodialysis and its benefits.
Parents/caregivers may experience a lot of emotions when they learn their child needs surgery. Learn strategies to help you prepare yourself before the surgery so that you can better support your child.
Find out how to work with your child's school to support your child with ADHD.
After a heart transplant, your child will need to stay in hospital for at least two to four weeks. Learn about what is involved in your child's recovery.
An in-depth description of what is involved in an EEG as part of brain tumor diagnosis, and a look at MEG.
Your goal is to work with your child's teacher to get the best education for your child. Your child has the right to attend school and if you feel they're not getting a "fair shake," get involved with the administration.
Children growing up with phenylketonuria (PKU) need to incorporate health care into their normal routines. Read about encouraging proper development.
Your child will have a small tube, called a nasal stent, placed in their nostrils after surgery. Learn how to take care of your child at home.
Learn about Precision Child Health, including how it can help to better predict, prevent, diagnose and treat disease.
Learn how your child can minimize infection at home, after the blood and marrow transplant.
Your child needs to take the medicine called rituximab. This information sheet explains what rituximab does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
When you have a child with a complex health condition it is a good idea to write a letter to your child's school to give them the information they need.
Your child needs to take the medicine called mercaptopurine. This information sheet explains what mercaptopurine does, how to give it, and what side effects, or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
A ureteral reimplant is an operation that stops urine, or pee, from going back into the kidneys from the bladder. Learn how to care for your child at home after the procedure.
Learn about the roles of different members of your child's health-care team, including their oncologists and nurses.
Your child needs to take the medicine called teniposide. This information sheet explains what teniposide does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
Your child needs to take the medicine called deferoxamine. This information sheet explains what deferoxamine does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
Learn about the signs and symptoms of anxiety in children and teens.
Detailed information concerning how to advocate for your child as soon as she in back in school, and balancing treatment with education.
Discover the signs of chronic pain in a young child and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.
It is important to keep your child as healthy as possible before a heart transplant. Learn about what happens while you are waiting for a donor heart to become available.
Your child needs to take the medicine called levetiracetam. This information sheet explains what levetiracetam does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
Pharmacists are trained health professionals who are medication experts. Learn about the role they play in the health-care team.
