Urinary catheters require regular cleaning and irrigation to keep them working properly. Find out how to care for your child's catheter at home.
Following a mitrofanoff operation, parents and children will empty the child's bladder using a catheter. Learn about how to use and care for a catheter.
A drainage catheter is a soft flexible tube placed into the pleural space around the lung. The tube drains fluid that is compressing the lung and restricting breathing. Learn about the insertion procedure and how to care for the drainage catheter.
A voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG) uses X-rays to look at how well your child's bladder works during urination. Read about what to expect during a VCUG.
Clean intermittent catheterization is a technique for children who need to use a catheter to empty their bladder. Read these step-by-step instructions for children with male anatomy.
Catheter ablation is a treatment for children with certain types of tachycardia (rapid heart rate). Treatment involves destroying an abnormal circuit.
Clean intermittent catheterization is a technique for children who need to use a catheter to empty their bladder. Read these step-by-step instructions for children with female anatomy.
Pyeloplasty is an operation that unblocks one or both ureters. Find out when pyeloplasty is done, and how to take care of your child following surgery.
A ureteral reimplant is an operation that stops urine, or pee, from going back into the kidneys from the bladder. Learn how to care for your child at home after the procedure.
Find information about continuous peripheral nerve blocks (CPNBs) using an elastomeric device and learn how to care for your child at home with this device.
Learn how a urinary tract infection affects the bladder and kidneys and how it can be treated.
Bladder augmentation is an operation that uses a piece of bowel to make the bladder bigger. Read how you can prepare your child for bladder augmentation.
A ureteral reimplant is an operation to fix a ureter that is not connected to the bladder properly. Read what to expect after ureteral reimplant surgery.
Post-void residuals assess how well a child's bladder is emptying after surgery. Read step-by-step instructions for conducting post-void residual tests.
Learn how to make a salt rinse (saline solution) at home.
Find out how an antegrade continence enema can help your child and how to give an antegrade continence enema at home.
Learn about the mixture of nutrients in parenteral nutrition (PN) and how to provide your child PN at home.
This page describes several key phases of care at home after your child’s hypospadias surgery.
A video urodynamics study (VUDS) is a test done by your child’s doctor that provides information about how well your child’s bladder is working.
Your child needs medicine to manage pain. They may have an epidural infusion to get this medicine. This page explains what an epidural infusion is and what will happen when your child has one.
Learn how to care for your child at home after a treatment of intra-arterial chemotherapy for retinoblastoma.
Learn how to care for your child at home after an angiography through the femoral artery (groin).
Learn how to care for your child at home after an angiography through the radial artery (wrist).
Learn how to care for your child at home after a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) insertion.
