Palliative care includes reducing the physical, psychological, social and spiritual suffering that is associated with serious illness. Learn about the role palliative care providers can have in your child’s care.
Learn about the supports available to families coping with pregnancy and infant loss, including perinatal palliative care.
Learn about other types of pain, including recurrent, procedural, and palliative pain. Read about how they are treated. Lumbar punctures are discussed.
Proper diabetes care at home includes sharing responsibility and creating and maintaining a routine. Find out how to do this in a way that works for your family.
Books and websites with information about heart conditions in children.
Nurse practitioners are registered nurses who have additional formal education. Find out how a nurse practitioner is different from a nurse and what they can do to help you during your treatment.
The Blalock-Thomas-Taussig (BTT) shunt helps babies with certain heart defects get enough oxygen until they can have surgery to fix the defect.
Learn about the different types of brain tumours, how they are diagnosed and treated, and the various supports available to families.
Read about pulmonary atresia; a condition involving the pulmonary valve, between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery, not forming completely.
This page describes several key phases of care at home after your child’s hypospadias surgery.
The Norwood procedure is usually done as part of a series of surgeries to help the ventricle pump blood out to the body.
This page is an introduction to the At Home section of the scoliosis resource centre. It touches on building back your teen's food intake after scoliosis surgery, going back to school, and getting back to normal.
Learn how to how to care for your child at home after a myelogram.
Find out what happens when you receive chemotherapy as an outpatient, either in the hospital or taking medications at home.
Learn how to care for your child at home after a thyroid biopsy/fine needle aspiration (FNA).
Learn how to care for your child at home after they have received 131I-MIBG therapy, including follow-up care and when to seek medical attention.
Nurses help to coordinate your health care at the hospital and at home. Find out more about what a nurse does and how they can help you.
Nephrectomy is an operation to remove one of your child's kidneys. Learn how to take care of your child at home after the operation.
Learn about your child's care at home, after a blood and marrow transplant.
Learn how to care for your child at home after an angiography through the femoral artery (groin).
An occupational therapist can help you with everyday tasks. Find out why you might need occupational therapy as part of your recovery.
Learn how to care for your child at home after an angiography through the radial artery (wrist).
Learn about open-heart, closed-heart, and minimally invasive heart surgery.
Learn how to care for your child at home after a lumbar puncture.
Learn how to care for your child at home after an arthrogram.
