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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Written in Vietnamese, this pamphlet includes helpful tips for parents about helping children cope with medical procedures and surgery.
This pamphlets contains nursing discharge instructions for your child after surgery. It also explains how to care for your child after surgery, and when to get help.
Information on how to prepare for your child's heart surgery including dental care, what happens at the pre-admission clinic, what to do if your child becomes ill before surgery, how to prepare your child, what to pack, visiting.
This one page pamphlet describes the recommended steps to care for your child's chest wound.
Explains what a seizure is, what you should and should not do when your child is having a seizure.
Regardless of whether your chronic pain includes endometriosis, IC, or IBS, or a combination of all of these, following an anti-inflammatory diet can help to reduce the intensity of the pain you are experiencing. It is also essential to include lifestyle changes, such as increased activity and exer…
Developed by and for youth and families, these tools will assist you in learning about, participating in and managing your transition.
This pamphlet offers advice to parents and caregivers on how to care for your child with croup. It explains croup, the symptoms, what you can do at home, how it's diagnosed and also how it's treated.
This handout goes through the steps of managing and taking care of a Blake Drain.
Your doctor or nurse practitioner has ordered a medical imaging test that requires you to have an injection of contrast media.; While it is possible that tiny amounts of contrast media can enter breast milk, we want you to know that it is safe to continue to breast feed your baby.; This document ex…
This pamphlet explains how you can help your child heal when they have an acticoat dressing, and what to expect next.
A guide to help parents care for their child after heart surgery. Topics include: care of your child's incision; diet; pain management; post-surgical behaviour; activity; immunizations; returning to school and day care; preventing infection; and Post Pericardiotomy Syndrome(PPS).
Informs parents what to look for after their child has suffered a head injury, including how to care for your child in the first 24 hours after bringing them home.
This pamphlet answers the most frequently asked questions about when your water breaks early, also known as premature rupture of membranes or PROM.
This patient handout provides an overview of using the cell saver during a caesarean section.
Information on how to start and keep up breast milk supply when a baby is not breastfeeding.
Learn about why your child needs an implanted port, how they get one, and how the port works. Includes illustrations.
Learn how to flush Heparin solution through your child's implanted port. Includes photographs.
Learn about living with an insuflon, like when it should be replaced, and how to give medicine through the insuflon.