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Learn about why your child needs an implanted port, how they get one, and how the port works. Includes illustrations.
How to care for your child at home, after your child gets an intrauterine device (IUD). Includes when to get help.
Lean how and why to heparin flush your child's central venous line.
Learn what to expect after your child has cochlear implant surgery. Explains how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Information on what a PICC is, how to care for a PICC, and what to watch for.
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.
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 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.
You, Your Child [and] Arthritis is a valuable resource for families of children with juvenile arthritis (JA). This guide provides the information parents/caregivers need to understand their child?s disease and to feel comfortable caring for them. It also covers the different types of juvenile arthr…
Learn about living with an insuflon, like when it should be replaced, and how to give medicine through the insuflon.
This one page pamphlet describes the recommended steps to care for your child's chest wound.
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.
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.
This handout goes through the steps of managing and taking care of a Blake Drain.
Learn what to expect if your child has a nerve block after surgery, and how to care for them. This document explains what is normal, how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Your child may have a caudal nerve block to reduce their pain after surgery. Learn what to expect when your child receives a caudal nerve block, how to care for your child while the block is working, and when to get help.
Imagine having the flu, while lying in a bed of ants, listening to heavy metal at high volume, and trying to do calculus. Now consider living in that body all the time. It becomes easy to understand how kids with difficulties processing and controlling sensory information can become avoidant, anxio…
A pamphlet that explains what to expect after dental treatment. It provides post operative information on: bleeding, cleaning, stitches and eating.
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).
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.
Bronchiolitis is a cold virus (often Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)) that has gone down into your child's lungs. This pamphlet provides information about what to do, what treatments are available, and when to go to your family doctor and the emergency room.
This pamphlet explains what to expect after your child's strabismus repair surgery, and how to care for your child as they recover.
Presenting simple yet highly effective methods for coping and healing, this book provides answers and relief to parents trying to deal with the loss of a child. It offers 100 practical, action-oriented tips for embracing grief, such as writing a letter to the child who has died; spending time with …
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.
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 pamphlet explains how you can help your child heal when they have an acticoat dressing, and what to expect next.
The sexual abuse of a child creates a devastating family crisis. Parents want to know what to do and say to help their child, both immediately and in the long term. This book offers practical guidance for parents who courageously face the days and months after a child's abuse. Written in a positive…
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.
These suggestions can help you and your child manage stress before, during, and after their; procedure.; Some children may need to talk about the procedure and their coping plan several times. Other children just need to prepare once.; You know your child best. Please adapt these suggestions to sui…
Nerve blocks are performed by delivering local anesthetic (numbing medication) around the nerves that carry painful sensation from the surgical site or limb (arm or leg).; Learn how to care for your child at home, when they have an elastomeric pump. This handout explains what to expect, and when to…
Gives information to parents and guardians on how to best work together with your child's health care team to keep your child safe during their stay in Child and Youth Mental Health at BC Children's Hospital.
Written in Vietnamese, this pamphlet includes helpful tips for parents about helping children cope with medical procedures and surgery.
One of the greatest challenges a parent faces is navigating their child's appetite. This book separates fact from fad, and shares the latest reliable science to help you decide what's best for you and your child. The book covers eating during pregnancy, milk-feeding (with breastfeeding or formula),…
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.
Explains what a seizure is, what you should and should not do when your child is having a seizure.
This pamphlet was developed by the Neurosciences Nursing Department at BC Children's Hospital to provide information to families about administering Midazolam in the cheek.
This pamphlet was developed by the Neurosciences Nursing Department at BC Children's Hospital to provide information to families about administering Midazolam in the nose.
Written in Traditional Chinese, this pamphlet includes helpful tips for parents about helping children cope with medical procedures and 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.
This 1 page pamphlet provides information to parents about pressure sores- why they happen, where they happen, and how to prevent them.
This is a comprehensive guide to ADHD's symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in children and adults, including information including basic symptoms and their effects on school, work, home, and personal relationships; the differences in ADHD between boys and girls; counseling, school interventions, be…
Gives information to parents and guardians on how to best work together with your child's health care team to keep your child safe during their stay at BC Children's.
This book is written for parents, relatives, professionals, educators, or caregivers of a child or adult on the spectrum. These techniques are for children and adults that are not yet verbal, making some sounds, using some words, speaking in single words, or using two-word phrases. The author demon…
What have scientists learned about the causes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)? Can parents do anything to prevent it? Why do different kids have such different symptoms, and what are the best ways to deal with them? Will there ever be a cure? This guide helps parents put the latest advances to wo…
Toddler's First Steps provides trusted information on how to nurture the healthy development of your child. As your child grows, they will learn and change at an amazing speed. This resource provides guidance on how to support your child as they go through the many stages of toddlerhood and encount…