Educational Materials for Families Facing General Surgery
The following information may be helpful to families preparing for general surgery. You may also view a searchable directory of general patient/family educational materials.
- Anesthesia: Questions and answers (Somali) (Spanish)
- Appendicitis
- Caudal block
- Central Venous Catheters: Care at home (Spanish)
- Circumcision (Somali), (Spanish)
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia: Care at home
- Cytoscopy: Care at home
- Drinking liquids: Helpful hints for you and your child
- Eating and drinking before anesthesia or sedation (Somali), (Spanish)
- Epidural analgesia
- Helping children cope with medical procedures
- Hernia and/or hydrocele (Hmong), (Spanish)
- Implanted port (Hmong), (Spanish)
- Implanted port: Care at home (Hmong), (Spanish)
- Inguinal hernia repair
- Insuflon (indwelling subcutaneous catheter)
- Information for Parents about Integrative Medicine
- Intravenous therapy
- Keeping Your Child Safe at Children's (Hmong), (Somali), (Spanish)
- Medicine Safety (Spanish)
- Mobility Changes: Helping Children Cope
- Nitrous Oxide for Sedation (Spanish)
- Pain in Children and Adolescents (Hmong), (Somali), (Spanish)
- Pain in Infants (Hmong), (Somali), (Spanish)
- Patient-controlled Analgesia
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter: Care at Home (Spanish)
- Port insertion
- Sedation for a Procedure (Spanish)
- Sedation: Extended Observation
- Umbilical hernia repair
- Wound Care (Hmong), (Somali), (Spanish)
