Family Library
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.
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.
The Medikidz help Freddy overcome his fears about having a blood test.
A realistic, photograph-based storybook to prepare children for a blood test. Monkey meets a phlebotomist and stays still during the test. His mum reads him a story. Developed in partnership with the UK's National Health Service.; Ages 2-7
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Follow Betty as she has her first blood test and learns that it is not as scary as she thought. She also learns about blood from Nurse Nina and gets to stay in the hospital and make lots of new friends.
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Learn how to use a needle and syringe.
The pamphlet shows parents how to give a subcutaneous injection (also know as 'sub-Q' injection).
This pamphlet describes the What, Why and How of using a cuffed peripherally inserted central catheter, or cuffed PICC.
Linnovation en santé : Réfléchir et agir pour la population est un guide pratique qui vise à améliorer la performance de toute organisation du milieu de la santé ainsi que ses acteurs. Il aborde le processus global de linnovation et propose des concepts, des méthodes et des outils pour le mettre en…
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This patient handout provides an overview of using the cell saver during a caesarean section.
Answers frequently asked questions about blood transfusions for adults.
Chinese Simplified language: Answers frequently asked questions about blood transfusions for adults.
French language: Answers frequently asked questions about blood transfusions for adults.
Punjabi language: Answers frequently asked questions about blood transfusions for adults.
Spanish language: Answers frequently asked questions about blood transfusions for adults.
Vietnamese language: Answers frequently asked questions about blood transfusions for adults.
Answers frequently asked questions about blood transfusions for children.
Chinese simplified language: Answers frequently asked questions about blood transfusions for children.
Punjabi language: Answers frequently asked questions about blood transfusions for children.
French language: Answers frequently asked questions about blood transfusions for children.