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Tests & Treatments

Medicines

Oral Medications: What's That Mean?

Injection Medications: What's That Mean?

Topical Medications: What's That Mean?

Intravenous (I.V.): What's That Mean?

What to Do if Your Doctor Tells You to Take Warfarin

Foods to Avoid When Taking Warfarin

Medicines to Avoid When Taking Warfarin

Exercise, Sports & Warfarin

Does My Child Need an Antibiotic?

Your Child's Medicine: Managing Pain

When to Use Antibiotics for Your Child

Tests

Step-by-Step: Taking a Child's Temperature in the Ear

Step-by-Step: Taking a Child's Temperature Under the Arm

Laparoscopy in Children

Learning About Your Child's Laryngoscopy

Echocardiogram for Children

Electrocardiogram (EKG) for Children

Learning About Your Child's CT Scan

Learning About Your Child's MRI Test

Learning About Your Child's X-Ray Test

Learning About Blood Tests for Children

Blood Draws

Blood Draws: What's That Mean?

Preparing Your Child for a Blood Test

Upper GI Endoscopy for Children

Learning About Your Child's Bronchoscopy

Coagulate

INR

INR Goal Range

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor (ABPM)

White Coat Hypertension

Baseline: What's That Mean?

Lumbar: What's That Mean?

Vitals Defined: What's That Mean?

MRIs: What's That Mean?

Preparing Your Child for an MRI

Preparing Your Child for a CT Scan

Pulse Ox: What's That Mean?

Temperature: What's That Mean?

Pain Signals: What's That Mean?

Weight: What's That Mean?

Diagnosis: What's That Mean?

Electrodes: What's That Mean?

Stethoscope: What's That Mean?

EEG / Electroencephalography: What's That Mean?

EEGs

Bone Marrow Biopsies

Bone Marrow Biopsy: What's That Mean?

Lumbar Puncture / LP / Spinal Tap: What's That Mean?

The Faces Pain Scale: What's That Mean?

The Numeric Pain Scale: What's That Mean?

Urologic Tests for Children

When Your Child Needs a Voiding Cystourethrogram (VCUG)

When Your Child Needs a Pelvic Ultrasound

When Your Child Needs an Abdominal Ultrasound

When Your Child Needs an Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Series

When Your Child Needs a Colonoscopy or Sigmoidoscopy

Lab Tests to Diagnose Digestive Diseases in Children

Treating Celiac Disease in Children

Your Child's Bowel Surgery

When Your Child Needs a Nasogastric (NG) Tube

When Your Child Needs Tube Feeding (Enteral Nutrition)

Discharge Instructions: Your Child's Colostomy

After Your Child's Ileostomy

When Your Child Needs Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)

When Your Child Needs a Percutaneous Liver Biopsy

When Your Child Needs a Blood Test: Coping Tips

Understanding Lung Function Tests in Babies and Young Children

When Your Child Needs Pulmonary Function Tests

Your Child's Nasogastric Tube: Replacing the Tube

Your Child's Nasogastric Tube: Syringe Feeding

Your Child's Nasogastric Tube: Flushing the Tube

Your Child's Gastrostomy or Gastro-Jejunum Tube: Syringe Feeding

When Your Child Needs a Stoma

Gastrostomy or Gastro-jejunum Tube: Flushing the Tube

Your Child's Gastrostomy Tube: Checking the Balloon

When Your Child Needs a Gastrostomy or Gastrojejunum Tube

Your Child's Nasogastric Tube- Pump Feeding

Sleep Study for a Child

Step-by-Step: Taking a Child's Temperature Under the Arm

Step-by-Step: Taking a Child's Temperature in the Ear

Step-by-Step: Taking a Child's Temperature by Mouth

Step-by-Step: Taking a Child's Rectal Temperature

Treatments

Step-by-Step: Percussive Postural Drainage (Child)

Step-by-Step: Placing an NG Tube for a Baby

Step-by-Step: Suctioning a Child's Tracheostomy

Procedure: What's That Mean?

Your Child's Hernia Repair: Before Surgery

Your Child's Orchiopexy: Before Surgery

Taking Your Medicine

Leftover Medicine: What's That Mean?

Your Child's Orchiopexy: Returning Home

Your Child's Tonsillectomy: Before Surgery

Chest Tube: What's That Mean?

Chest Tube Drainage System: What's That Mean?

Caring for Your Child's IV Site

Chest Tubes

Your Child's Cochlear Implant: Before Surgery

Postural Drainage: What's That Mean?

Butterfly Needle: What's That Mean?

Central Line: What's That Mean?

Hickman: What's That Mean?

IV: What's That Mean?

Nasogastric Tube / NG Tube: What's That Mean?

NG Tube Insertion

PICC: What's That Mean?

PICCs, Ports & Hickmans

Port: What's That Mean?

Distractions (from Pain): What's That Mean?

Water: Why It's So Important

Lumbar Punctures

Chest Physical Therapy

Chest Physical Therapy (CPT): What's That Mean?

Numbing Cream: What's That Mean?

Pedialyte: What's That Mean?

Taking Opioid Medicine Safely: What's That Mean?

Ambulance, Emergency Room or Urgent Care?

When Your Child Needs Clean Intermittent Catheterization (CIC)

Care of the Uncircumcised Penis

Auricular Reconstruction of a Child's Ear: Phase 1

Auricular Reconstruction of a Child's Ear: Phase 2

Auricular Reconstruction of a Child's Ear: Phase 3

After Tonsillectomy/Adenoidectomy

After Tympanostomy (Ear Tubes)

Tympanostomy (Ear Tube)

Treating Bedwetting

Immune Thrombocytopenia Purpura (Child)

Discharge Instructions for Sickle Cell Anemia and Sickle Cell Crisis (Child)

Understanding Your Child's Inguinal (Groin) Hernia Repair

Hernia Surgery- Umbilical Hernia Repair (Child)

Your Child's Liver Transplant: An Overview

Tonsillectomy/Adenoidectomy

When Your Child Needs a Blood Transfusion

When Your Child Needs a Foley Catheter—Boy

When Your Child Needs a Foley Catheter—Girl

Flushing Your Child's PICC Line at Home

Treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Treatment for Selective Mutism

Step-by-Step: Changing a Child's Tracheostomy

Step-by-Step: Percussive Postural Drainage (Child)

Step-by-Step: Suctioning a Child's Tracheostomy

Robotic-Assisted Patent Foramen Ovale Repair

Patent Foramen Ovale Transcatheter Repair

Ketogenic Diet for Seizures in Children

Pavlik Harness Treatment for Children

When Your Child Needs a VP Shunt Revision

Discharge instructions: Blood Transfusion for Child

X-Rays & Pictures of Your Body

Medical Images: What's That Mean?

Ultrasounds Explained

CT Scans: What's That Mean?

X-Rays, CT Scans & MRIs

When Your Child Needs a CT Scan

When Your Child Needs an MRI Scan

When Your Child Needs an X-ray

When Your Child Needs a Barium Enema

When Your Child Needs a Modified Barium Swallow

When Your Child Needs an Upper Endoscopy

Understanding a Meckel's Scan (Child)

Radiation in a Nuclear Medicine Scan (Child)

Radiation Exposure from X-rays (Child)

Having a Meckel's Scan (Child)