Find out what is involved in in-hospital hemodialysis and its benefits.
Learn what to expect when you visit your child in the Post-Anesthetic Care Unit (PACU), sometimes called recovery.
Learn about the restrictions in protective isolation, after your child's blood and marrow transplant.
Recommendations for helping your child navigate through the health-care system and gain independence in managing their own health care.
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.
Coping styles in children with an illness vary. Learn your child's coping style.
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 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.
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.
Find out how to work with your child's school to support your child with ADHD.
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 have the medicine called ipratropium. This information sheet explains what ipratropium does, how it is given, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
Find out who you should tell about your child's osteoporosis.
Learn about the signs and symptoms of anxiety in children and teens.
Discover the signs of chronic pain in a young child and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.
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.
Your child needs to take the medicine called thiotepa. This information sheet explains what thiotepa does, how it is given, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
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.
Nasal polyps are growths in the nose that impair breathing. Learn about nasal polypectomy, the surgical removal of nasal polyps and recovery after surgery.
