Learn what to expect when you visit your child in the Post-Anesthetic Care Unit (PACU), sometimes called recovery.
Find out what is involved in in-hospital hemodialysis and its benefits.
Recommendations for helping your child navigate through the health-care system and gain independence in managing their own health care.
Learn about the restrictions in protective isolation, after your child's blood and marrow transplant.
Find out how to work with your child's school to support your child with ADHD.
Coping styles in children with an illness vary. Learn your child's coping style.
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.
Children growing up with phenylketonuria (PKU) need to incorporate health care into their normal routines. Read about encouraging proper development.
Learn how your child can minimize infection at home, after the blood and marrow transplant.
Detailed information concerning how to advocate for your child as soon as she in back in school, and balancing treatment with education.
Learn how to help your child get used to staying in the hospital.
Most children have at least some pain after an operation, which is called post-operative pain. Learn about relieving a child's post-operative pain at home.
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.
Find out what to expect as your child recovers from limb lengthening and reconstruction surgery.
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.
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.
Read about what to do in case of a seizure to ensure your child's safety and comfort.
Learn how a SPECT scan helps identify where seizures start in the brain.
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.
Your child needs to take the medicine called lomustine. This information sheet explains what lomustine does, how to give it, and what side effects, or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
A tympanoplasty is an operation to fix a hole in your child's eardrum. Learn about tympanoplasty and how to help your child recover from surgery.
Your child needs to take the medicine called pentamidine. This information sheet explains what pentamidine does, how it is given, and what side effects or problems your child may have when he takes this medicine.
