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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 what to expect after your child has a laryngoscopy or bronchoscopy procedure. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has cochlear implant surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn how to prepare for this surgery, and what to expect afterward. This handout also explains when to get help.
Learn what to expect when your child has Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has their adenoids removed. Also explains when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has tympanoplasty or mastoidectomy surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has ear tube surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has septoplasty surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has salivary gland duct ligation surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has salivary glad duct ligation surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has a tongue tie release surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has thyroglossal duct cyst removal surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has otoplasty, a type of ear surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has preauricular sinus removal surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has ear tube surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
This handout explains what to do before this surgery, and how to care for your child afterward. It also explains when to get help.
Learn what to expect after your child has a tonsillectomy (surgery to remove their tonsils). Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
When your child is having surgery, this virtual tour of BC Children's Hospital shows you what to expect during your child's stay. It's designed for the caregiver to watch first, and then share parts with your child that you know would be helpful.
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 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.
This 1 page handout describes to parents how and why to give nasal spray to your child.
Provides information about scoliosis and scoliosis surgery, and answers the questions: How does scoliosis surgery work? How do I get ready for the surgery? What tests do I need to have done? What happens the day of my surgery? How long will I be in the hospital? Will I be in a lot of pain? Am I rea…
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.
Written in Punjabi, 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.
Written in Traditional Chinese, 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.
Written in Simplified Chinese, 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.
This handout is for parents and caregivers of infants having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn what your infant may find stressful, and how you can prepare your infant for surgery.
This handout is for parents and caregivers of toddlers (age 1-2 years) having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn what your toddler may find stressful, and how you can prepare your toddler for surgery.
This handout is for parents and caregivers of preschool-aged children (age 3-5 years) having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn what your child may find stressful, and how you can prepare your child for surgery.
This handout is for parents and caregivers of teenage children (age 13 or older) having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn what your teen may find stressful, and how you can prepare your teen for surgery.
Describes caring for yourself after having scoliosis surgery. Includes: going back to school; care of the incision (scar); aches, pains and funny feelings; wearing braces and eating well.
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).
This handout is for parents and caregivers of children having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn how your child's siblings may feel, and how you can help them cope with their sibling's surgery.
This handout is for parents and caregivers of school-aged children (age 6-12 years) having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn what your child may find stressful, and how you can prepare your child for surgery.
After your child's spine surgery to correct scoliosis, it is important that safety measures are taken when moving him or her. Please follow the instructions on this pamphlet. The Occupational Therapist or Physical Therapist may talk with you about specific safety measures for your child.
This pamphlet provides information about the The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Clinic, a team at BC Women's Hospital consisting of a team of health care professionals. Recurrent Pregnancy Loss (RPL) is when a woman experiences 2 or more consecutive miscarriages (1 miscarriage after another).
Information on how to care for your child after cleft palate surgery including feeding, mouth care, ear and throat care, and pain management.
Information on how to care for your child after cleft lip surgery including feeding, healing and incision care, pain management, and orthodontic appliances.
Answers to frequently asked questions about nostril splinting for cleft lip and nasal deformity including: what a nostril splint is, how it's made, how long it is worn for; care of the splint.
An introduction to the hospital for young children. Describes hospital situations and people such as nurses, surgeons, anaesthesia, and the hospital ward in an amusing, friendly way.
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For BCW NICU parents and caregivers. This diagram shows the steps to bringing your baby home with respiratory support.
This yoga program was developed for teens with recurrent abdominal pain--particularly Irritable Bowel Syndrome--as part of a research treatment study at BC Children's Hospital, in Vancouver Canada.
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Provides information for parents about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) including symptoms and how to protect children against RSV.
Written in Punjabi, this pamphlet provides information for parents about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) including symptoms and how to protect children against RSV.
Written in Traditional Chinese, this pamphlet provides information for parents about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) including symptoms and how to protect children against RSV.
This 1 page pamphlet provides information to parents about pressure sores- why they happen, where they happen, and how to prevent them.
Pre-operative educational video to prepare patients with Idiopathic Scoliosis on what to expect after surgery.
Mine de rien, une opération, c'est toujours une aventure importante, qui fait un peu peur mais qui fait grandir...
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This pamphlet explains what to expect after your child's strabismus repair surgery, and how to care for your child as they recover.
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Maggie learns about what happens before, during, and after an operation, and the surgical team who will be taking care of her.
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