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.
Losing a child is one of the most difficult losses a person can go through. This page describes common reactions to grief and available supports.
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.
Learn about the different types of brain tumours, how they are diagnosed and treated, and the various supports available to families.
Learn about cardiology treatment teams, which focus on treating children with heart conditions. The specific role of each team member is discussed.
Books and websites with information about heart conditions in children.
Your health-care team will involve many different people, all of whom play an important role in your care. This page will tell you more about what to expect from your health-care team.
Read about the various health-care team members who care for babies admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
A blood and marrow transplant (BMT) replaces the bone marrow system with healthy stem cells. A BMT may be done because there are too few blood stem cells, the blood cells do not work properly or it may be part of cancer treatment.
Your health-care team is there to support you and answer any questions you might have. Find out how much you should share with them, how to talk to your team on your own and what to do if they can't answer your questions.
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 members of your child's blood and marrow transplant (BMT) health-care team.
The Norwood procedure is usually done as part of a series of surgeries to help the ventricle pump blood out to the body.
Read about pulmonary atresia; a condition involving the pulmonary valve, between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery, not forming completely.
A pharmacist is part of your health-care team, either at the hospital or in a pharmacy. Learn what a pharmacist is and how they can help you.
Learn about the treatment of heart conditions. Find out about the different types of heart treatment and the right questions you should ask the doctor about the treatment.
Learn how the family support team can help you cope during your child's blood and marrow transplant/cellular therapy.
The main symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder are divided into four categories. Learn about these symptoms and about diagnosis.
When your child comes to the hospital for surgery, you will meet many different members of the health-care team. Learn about the role each of these people play in your child’s care.
Learn about open-heart, closed-heart, and minimally invasive heart surgery.
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.
Depending on your cancer treatment, you may need to see a speech-language pathologist. Find out what a speech-language pathologist does and why you may need one on your health-care team.
A dietitian can help you with special food requirements during cancer treatment. Find out what else a dietitian does and why you will have one as part of your health-care team.
