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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.
Learn about why your child needs an implanted port, how they get one, and how the port works. Includes illustrations.
Written in Vietnamese, this handout provides parents with information on what to expect in the first 24 hours after their child has anesthesia. It covers the topics of aches, pain, fever, nausea, vomiting,as well as what foods to offer and what to do in case of breathing problems.
Provides information about symptoms to look for after a transfusion.
Written in Vietnamese, this pamphlet includes helpful tips for parents about helping children cope with medical procedures and surgery.
This handout provides an overview of high blood pressure during pregnancy. This information will help you understand how your Home Care Nursing Team and your doctor are planning to keep you and your baby safe and healthy while you are at home.
Your care provider may suggest an epidural or combined spinal epidural (CSE) to help you manage pain through labour. This handout explains what an epidural is, how it is given, benefits, and risks for you and your baby.
Fentanyl offers a medium amount of pain relief during during labour. This overview explains how fentanyl is given during labour, and includes a list of possible side effects for you and your baby.
Written in Vietnamese, this pamphlet offers tips and strategies for helping your child prepare for surgery. There's separate sections with tips for infants, toddlers, preschooler age children, school-age children, and teens.
Many people experience a headache after birth. A spinal headache is a special type of headache that people can have after an epidural or spinal anesthetic. It is caused by a hole in the spinal fluid sac, where the epidural went in.; This handout describes symptoms of spinal headaches. It also expla…
Join Jett on his journey through the human body to learn how stem cells work and what happens before and after an autologous or allogeneic transplant.
