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Brachial plexus birth injury

Brachial plexus birth injury is an injury to the brachial plexus nerves leading from the spinal cord to the arm. This affects how the arm moves and feels things. Learn about the causes and possible treatments for a brachial plexus birth injury.

Other types of pain

Learn about other types of pain, including recurrent, procedural, and palliative pain. Read about how they are treated. Lumbar punctures are discussed.

Burn injury: Information for parents with a child staying at the hospital

Advice for parents with a child who is staying at the hospital and being treated for a burn injury.

Diagnostic procedures for heart conditions

Learn about diagnostic procedures used to detect heart conditions in children and how to help your child get through tests.

Acute pain: How to treat and manage in teens

​Find out how the 3Ps of pain management can help your teen manage their acute pain.

Acute pain: How to assess in young children

Find out how to assess acute pain in your young child (age two to five) at home and in medical settings.

Other diagnostic procedures for brain tumours

An in-depth description of other diagnostic procedures, such as blood tests and x-rays, which are involved in the medical diagnosis of brain cancer.

Elbow injury: Supracondylar humerus fracture

A supracondylar humerus fracture is a fracture just above the elbow. Learn how to help your child recover and when to see a doctor.

Acute pain: How to treat and manage in older children

​Find out how you can use the 3Ps of pain management to support your older child (age six to 12).

Scoping procedures: Bronchoscopy, laryngoscopy, esophagoscopy and laser surgery

Scoping procedures are used to look inside the throat. Learn why your child may have to have a scoping procedure, how to prepare and what to expect.

Speech-language pathology services during hospital admission(s)

Learn about how complex medical conditions and admissions to the hospital can impact speech and language development in children.

Coping with stressful or painful tests or procedures

Acute pain: How to assess in infants and toddlers

Find out how acute pain is identified and assessed, at home and in medical settings, in children not old enough to speak.

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.

Limb lengthening and reconstruction: Goal of treatment

Find out how limb reconstruction surgery can lengthen and repair shorter or crooked limbs.

Nerve-injury pain

Learn about neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain is caused by damage to the nervous system and is often described as burning or shooting pain.

Sickle cell disease: What is pain?

Learn about how we feel pain, what acute and chronic pain are and the most common causes of pain in people with sickle cell disease.

Sickle cell disease: What is pain?

Learn about how we feel pain, what acute and chronic pain are and the most common causes of pain in people with sickle cell disease.

Life support during heart surgery

During heart surgery, your child will likely be supported by mechanical ventilation, cardiopulmonary bypass, extracorporeal life support, hemoconcentration, circulatory arrest, or selective cerebral perfusion.

Assessing younger school-aged children (age five to eight)

Learn about pain assessment of younger school-age children. By this age, children begin to develop a sense of cause and effect concerning their pain.

The cancer care team: Child life specialist

A child-life specialist will help prepare you and educate you about your diagnosis, procedures and treatments. Learn how a child-life specialist can help you as part of your health-care team.

Tooth injury: First aid

Read about some of the things you can do if your child has a tooth injury.

Foreskin problems

​Learn how to treat common foreskin problems and when to see a doctor. 

Surgical correction of congenital heart defects

Learn about open-heart, closed-heart, and minimally invasive heart surgery.

Soft tissue injuries

Soft tissue injuries such as sprains and strains are common. Learn how to recognize and treat a soft tissue injury.