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Intravenous (IV) line care

IV lines can be an important part of your child's care. Learn about the importance of IV-line care and keeping your child safe.

Taking medications and looking after your IV line

Central venous line (CVL) insertion into the femoral vein using image guidance

​A central venous line (CVL) is a long, soft, thin, flexible tube that allows medicine into a child's body. Read about the femoral procedure.

Central venous line (CVL) insertion into the internal jugular vein using image guidance

A central venous line (CVL) is a long, soft, thin, flexible tube that allows medicine into a child's body. Read about the internal jugular vein procedure.

Liver transplant surgery: Taking medications and looking after your PICC line/CVL

Port

A port provides a comfortable, convenient way to receive medications such as chemotherapy, IV nutrition and fluids, and from which to have blood samples taken. Learn about this procedure.

Leukemia: Central venous line

Learn why your child acute myeloid leukemia (AML) will receive a central venous line (CVL) and how to care for it.

What to expect right after liver transplant surgery

Continuous opioid infusion

This page explains how a continuous opioid infusion gives a specific and constant amount of pain medication to your child through an IV.

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL): chemotherapy phases

Learn what happens during each of the five phases of chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

Blinatumomab

Your child needs to take the medicine called blinatumomab. This information sheet explains what blinatumomab does, how to give it and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.

About parenteral nutrition (PN)

Parenteral nutrition is liquid nutrition that is given to your child through an intravenous (IV) infusion if their digestive system cannot absorb or tolerate adequate food or fluids by mouth or through a feeding tube to be able to grow and thrive.

Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) insertion using image guidance

Learn about what a PICC is and how and why this type of intravenous line is inserted.  

What is general anesthesia?

This article will provide information to help prepare your child for their surgery, test or treatment under general anesthesia.

Vascular access in the NICU

Learn about several types of lines and catheters inserted into a vein that are used for vascular access on a premature baby or ill newborn.

What to expect right after kidney transplant surgery

Receiving cancer medications

Cancer treatment requires different types of medication, each of which may be given in a different way. Lean about the most common ways to receive chemotherapy and other medications and what to expect.

Central venous lines for blood and marrow transplant

Learn about central venous lines, before your child's blood and marrow transplant.

What to do when you are booked in for a kidney transplant

Hospital equipment

Learn about the equipment used during, and following an operation for scoliosis. Trusted answers from The Hospital for Sick Children.

What to do when you are called in for a liver transplant

Central lines and cancer treatment

You may have a central line as part of your cancer treatment. Learn about how to cope if you are self-conscious about your central line.

What to do when you are called in for a kidney transplant

What to do when you are booked in for a liver transplant

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scan before epilepsy surgery

Learn how a SPECT scan helps identify where seizures start in the brain.