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Written in Vietnamese, this pamphlet includes helpful tips for parents about helping children cope with medical procedures and surgery.
Written in Traditional Chinese, this pamphlet includes helpful tips for parents about helping children cope with medical procedures and surgery.
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 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.
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.
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 one page pamphlet describes the recommended steps to care for your child's chest wound.
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.
Information on how to care for a child with a pacemaker used to treat an irregular heart rhythm (arrythmia). Including: how to care for the incision; activity recommendations; signs of possible problems; travel information; environmental hazards.
This book explains how you can make your child's medical procedures less scary and painful. You will learn:; - Secrets to building your confidence in a medical setting,; - Essential steps to help prepare your child for medical tests,; - Practical skills that will transform your child's experience o…
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"Parents of a child in pain want nothing more than to offer immediate comfort. But a child with chronic or recurring pain requires much more. His or her parents need skills and strategies not only for increasing comfort but also for helping their child deal with an array of pain-related challenges,…
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This graphic novel answers your questions about pain:; How can I change my pain experience?; What is pain?; How do nerves work?; Answering these questions and more, this research-based book reveals just how strange pain is and how understanding it is often the key to relieving its effects. With gen…
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This volume is designed to help pediatric health professionals gain a true understanding of childhood pain. Pain is the most common reason for children to seek a medical consultation and sometimes is the most common reason for avoiding it. Unaddressed fears and anxiety complicate pain management an…
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This book, in Chinese, is written by a Clinical Professor in the Pediatric Department of the University of British Columbia and BC Children's Hospital, focuses on pediatric pain management. It is designed to help health professionals of all disciplines who work with children, gain understanding and…
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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…
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.
In this book, an expert team of pediatric gastroenterologists explains the symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments associated with Crohn disease, ulcerative colitis, and indeterminate colitis to help parents and children cope with the challenges of IBD. Also provides parents with practical advice on ho…
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We know that practicing mindfulness in everyday life can help us reduce stress and cultivate deep, embodied well-being, but what about its effects on physical and emotional pain, especially when it seems overwhelming or unrelenting? Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief is a soothing program with …
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Use Symple to track how you feel, to monitor your health, and to improve your wellbeing. Designed by both clinicians and regular people, Symple is an enjoyable way to connect to better health.
This 1 page pamphlet provides information to parents about pressure sores- why they happen, where they happen, and how to prevent them.
This workbook blends cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR). You will learn how pain affects both your mind and body, how negative emotions can make pain worse, and strategies to help you turn the volume down on your pain, so you can go back to enjoying act…
This workbook blends cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR). You will learn how pain affects both your mind and body, how negative emotions can make pain worse, and strategies to help you turn the volume down on your pain, so you can go back to enjoying act…
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Coming to grips with chronic pain is a very trying process for teenagers and their families. Dancing with Pain takes us into four teen's experiences dealing with pain from a facial injury, Sickle Cell Disease, CRPS (complex regional pain syndrome) and neck and shoulder trauma.; Combining animation …
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Explaining death to a child is one of the most difficult tasks a parent or other relative can face. The Grieving Child offers practical, compassionate advice for helping a child cope with the death of a parent or other loved one. Parents of children from preschool age to the teen years will find mu…
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This book provides clear information for teenagers who develop Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). It can be used as a tool to aid the early recognition of CRPS and implement the necessary team approach to management. Medical terms have been explained in a way that can be easily understood. The …
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"The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer is a key element in the Explain Pain toolkit. An easily accessible book for people experiencing pain, it introduces the Protectometer, a ground breaking pain treatment tool.; "The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer helps you understand your personal pain …
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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…
Ellen's new baby brother Stewart has been 'lost'. Ellen looks in all the cupboards for Stewart, and even in the washing machine - then her family help her understand that Stewart has died and isn't going to come back. Together they plant a tree for Stewart, so they will always have a place to remem…
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This book is for the parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers, or other support persons, who play a key role in helping children and teens who have a family member living with cancer.
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Provides information to help parents make a choice about using Sucrose to manage infant pain.
This journal is an activity book developed by an Art Therapist with the Patient and Family Counselling Program and an Oncology Nursing Practice Leader with the BC Cancer Agency. It is designed for older children, ages 10 and up, to help them learn creative ways of coping when a family member is liv…
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Mine de rien, une opération, c'est toujours une aventure importante, qui fait un peu peur mais qui fait grandir...
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Comfort, understanding, and advice for those who are suffering?and those who care for them.; Chronic illness creates many challenges, from career crises and relationship issues to struggles with self-blame, personal identity, and isolation. Beloved author Toni Bernhard addresses these challenges an…
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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.
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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Learn what to expect after your child has ear tube surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Planet Cancer is an honest, down-to-earth guide to living in this new world, from Diagnosis to Post-Treatment. Each chapter is informed by Planet Cancer’s voice—authoritative, funny, friendly, no-nonsense. Experts address issues from all sides around bedrock “What It’s Really Like” essays: deeply p…
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Overview of what a Melody Valve is and how to care for your child after their procedure.
The children of people with chronic illness and pain suffer quietly. "Why Does Mommy Hurt?" is a joyful, yet honest, portrayal of family life burdened with chronic illness. This is a delightful story told by a young boy learning to understand and cope with his mother's illness. The story creates na…
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Hattie's Journey is a story of a little girl who loved school, cheerleading and all things fun. But, one day things took a turn for the worst. Hattie became very ill and her life began to change. This story will provide a child's view of a personal struggle with kidney failure while having support,…
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Join Duke on his journey to learn more about his appendix, appendicitis, and appendectomy procedure.
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Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates 'thin' with 'healthy' is the problem.; The solution?; Health at Every Size.; Tune in to your body's expert gui…
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Learn about the exercise program recommended for you after you give birth by cesarean section.
Addressing the significant loss that divorce represents for children, this caregiving companion makes it possible for adults to guide them through the natural grief that accompanies the experience. Contending that children can continue to thrive if they are shown the way, this sensitive guide provi…
Explains the timing, procedure and care for alveolar cleft bone graft, a surgery to repair a cleft in a gum. Provides information for parents and guardians with children undergoing the surgery.
This book is meant to be like a friend accompanying a child or young adult on their journey of grief after losing a sibling or parent to cancer. This book was created with input from lots of young people who have shared similar experiences. And while it can't give you all the answers you may be loo…
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