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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.
This booklet is to teach parents about pain in children and to help them to ask for better care. It tells about sources of pain, how to measure it in children, and pain management.
Information on what to expect during your visit to the Emergency Department.
This pamphlet provides information and instructions on how to catheterize your child.
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.
Discusses aveolar bone graft, a surgery to repair a cleft in a gum. Provides information for parents on how to care for their child after this surgery.
A pamphlet that explains what to expect after dental treatment. It provides post operative information on: bleeding, cleaning, stitches and eating.
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.
This booklet includes several handouts to help parents of children with diabetes and youth learn more about basal-bolus insulin with multiple daily injections (MDI). Some of the information will help in understanding what basal-bolus insulin therapy is; other information and exercises will help pa…
This pamphlet provides information on breast or bottle feeding a newborn baby with a cleft lip and/or palate.
This eBook is an anxiety workbook for children age 5-11. Best Practice Guidelines for managing anxiety in this workbook have been adapted to be fun, engaging, and child friendly.
On a Saturday morning at the end of November 2008, a young family suffered the loss of two sons and the permanent paralysis of another as a result of an automobile accident. Rather than tear the family apart, the tragedy drew them closer and touched the hearts of people in and out of their Catholic…
Provides information to help parents make a choice about using Sucrose to manage infant pain.
Explains what a seizure is, what you should and should not do when your child is having a seizure.
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.
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.
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 Children's & Women's Mental Health.
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 pamphlet provides information and suggestions for how to support a woman who's currently in or has been in an abusive relationship.
Written in Traditional Chinese, this pamphlet includes helpful tips for parents about helping children cope with medical procedures and surgery.
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 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 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.
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.
Paraldehyde is a medication used to treat seizures that last longer than 5 minutes, or come in clusters. This pamphlet explains to parents the right dose, the right time, and the right way to give this medication.
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.
This pamphlet provides information for new parents about the flu, precautions they can take to protect their baby from the flu virus, and what will happen if you or your baby gets the flu while staying in the hospital.
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…
Informs parents what to look for after their child has suffered a head injury, including how to care for your child in the first 24 hours after bringing them home.
This pamphlet provides information about C. difficile, also known as Clostridium difficile or C.diff. It's a germ (bacteria) that can cause diarrhea.; It answers the questions about what it is, who can get it, how it's treated, how it spreads, how the hospital prevents the spread, what you can do t…
This booklet tells the true story of Juan and his experience with unilateral congenital cataract. Juan and his mom, Sandra, share their journey of finding out about his diagnosis and their experience of the hospital, treatment and caring for him. It ends with a happy look at how Juan is doing now.
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).
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…
For parents, this pamphlet describes how and why middle ear problems can occur when your baby has a cleft palate. It also discusses the screening program offered by the BC Early Hearing Program, as well as providing Contact Information for related hospital departments and services.
This pamphlet provides information about the Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Test, which measures how the hearing nerve and brainstem respond to sounds. It includes how the test is done, explains why your child must be asleep during the test, and eating and drinking instructions.
This 1 page pamphlet for parents explains what an Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) test is, and what you can do to prepare for the test.
This 1 page pamphlet for parents explains what an Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) test is, and what you can do to prepare for the test in Punjabi.
This 1 page pamphlet for parents explains what an Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) test is, and what you can do to prepare for the test in Simplified Chinese.
This 1 page pamphlet for parents explains what an Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) test is, and what you can do to prepare for the test in Traditional Chinese.
This pamphlet provides information about the Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Test, which measures how the hearing nerve and brainstem respond to sounds. It includes how the test is done, explains why your child must be asleep during the test, and eating and drinking instructions in Punjabi.
This pamphlet provides information about the Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Test, which measures how the hearing nerve and brainstem respond to sounds. It includes how the test is done, explains why your child must be asleep during the test, and eating and drinking instructions in Simplified Chi…
This pamphlet provides information about the Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Test, which measures how the hearing nerve and brainstem respond to sounds. It includes how the test is done, explains why your child must be asleep during the test, and eating and drinking instructions in Traditional Ch…
This booklet summarizes the BC Consensus Statement on Hip Surveillance for children with cerebral palsy, which was developed in 2011 and 2012 by parents of these children, and lots of nurses and physicians across BC.
This booklet summarizes the BC Consensus Statement on Hip Surveillance for children with cerebral palsy, which was developed in 2011 and 2012 by parents of these children, and lots of nurses and physicians across BC.
This booklet summarizes the BC Consensus Statement on Hip Surveillance for children with cerebral palsy, which was developed in 2011 and 2012 by parents of these children, and lots of nurses and physicians across BC.
This booklet summarizes the BC Consensus Statement on Hip Surveillance for children with cerebral palsy, which was developed in 2011 and 2012 by parents of these children, and lots of nurses and physicians across BC.
This booklet summarizes the BC Consensus Statement on Hip Surveillance for children with cerebral palsy, which was developed in 2011 and 2012 by parents of these children, and lots of nurses and physicians across BC.