When Your Child Has Surgery

• Anesthesia

  Discover how anesthesia prevents pain during surgery, what the different types are, and what to expect from the process.

• Can Anesthesia Hurt Brain Development?

  Find out what the experts have to say.

• Elective Surgery

  Elective surgery means you and the doctor decide when the it will happen. Many elective surgeries are important, potentially life-changing operations. Here’s how to plan for them.

• Epilepsy Surgery

  Epilepsy surgery is an operation done on the brain to reduce or stop seizures.

• Gastrostomy Tube (G-Tube)

  Some kids have medical problems that prevent them from being able to take adequate nutrition by mouth. A gastrostomy tube (also called a G-tube) delivers nutrition directly to the stomach.

• Giving Opioid Prescription Pain Medicine: What Parents Need to Know

  If your child’s health care provider prescribed a prescription pain medicine that contains an opioid, you probably have many questions about how to use it safely. Get answers here.

• Heart Transplant

  If your child needs a heart transplant, you’re probably feeling lots of emotions. Fortunately, many kids who undergo heart transplants go on to live normal, healthy lives.

• Helping Kids Get Ready for Surgery

  Kids who will be having surgery may feel stressed about it. Here’s how parents can help them.

• Laryngoscopy

  Laryngoscopy, a visual exam of the voicebox and airway, can help discover the causes of voice and breathing problems, throat or ear pain, and other bothersome symptoms.

• Liver Transplant

  If your child needs a liver transplant, you’re probably feeling lots of emotions. Fortunately, most kids who have liver transplants go on to live normal, healthy lives.