Your Hospital Visit

Keeping you safe while you are in the hospital is very important. This video shows how everyone -- from kids, to parents, to siblings, to your care team -- can help to make patient safety job #1.

What's That Mean: Consent

What's That Mean: ID Bracelet

What's That Mean: Side Rails

What's That Mean? - Comfort Measures (for Pain)

What's That Mean? - Ambulatory

Q is for Quarantine

What's That Mean: Quarantine

What's That Mean: Questionnaire

What's That Mean? - Teach-Back

This animated Speak Up™ video is especially for children going to the hospital. Marco, as Captain Speak Up, helps em"power" Cara, so she feels confident asking her doctor questions. "Speak Up: Kid Power!" emphasizes that children have the right to ask questions and voice their concerns if they don't understand something.

Watch this video to understand how peripheral nerve blocks may be used to keep a child pain-free during and after a surgery or procedure.

What's That Mean: Surgery

Watch this video to understand how spinal, epidural, and caudal anesthesia may be used for a child's surgery or procedure.

Watch this video to learn the steps to care for your child's surgical drain at home, and know when to seek care.

This video gives patients an overview of what to expect before and after their surgery.

Having surgery can be stressful—and scary, especially for a child. You can do a lot to help your child stay calm and get ready for the procedure.

When Goldilocks tries to sneak a bowl of porridge on the night before her surgery, Mama Bear comes to the rescue. She explains to Goldilocks why it's important not to eat or drink too soon before surgery, and tells her what happened to Baby Bear when he did not follow his doctor's NPO instructions. Co-Produced with Boston Children's Hospital, based on their NPO guidelines.

During an appendectomy, the surgeon removes your child's appendix. The procedure takes 30 minutes to an hour.

What's That Mean: NPO

Before surgery, kids may be a bit worried about getting "knocked out." Lorrin and Daniel help to reduce their fears by explaining what anesthesia is and what kids can expect.

What's That Mean: Anesthesia

What's That Mean: Sedation

What's That Mean: Procedure Team

A procedure is something done to figure out what is happening inside your body or to help your body get better. Sedation is a special medicine your care team uses to put you into a special sleep where you won't see, hear, or feel anything. Procedural Sedation is when your care team uses "sleepy medicine" before -- and during -- your procedure.

What's That Mean: Procedural Sedation

What's That Mean: Sedation Team

What's That Mean: Operating Room

What's That Mean: Suture

What's That Mean: Recovery Room

What's That Mean: Recovery Room

Watch this to learn how to help your child use an incentive spirometer.