Procedures and treatments

Preparing a child for a procedure or treatment can be an anxious occasion. Great Ormond Street Hospital have produced a number of factsheets to help explain what will happen and what to expect.

Encouraging your child to produce a healthy voice

There are many reasons why children’s voices may sound different in quality, loudness or pitch, to those of their friends, brothers and sisters. Your child’s speech and language therapist and/or ENT doctor will explain the specific reason why your own chi

Endovenous laser treatment

Endovenous laser treatment (EVLT) is a way of treating abnormal and enlarged veins so that they shrink and become less troublesome. This page from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) explains about endovenous laser treatment (EVLT), why it might be sugges

Endovenous laser treatment (EVLT)

Information about Endovenous laser treatment (EVLT), why it might be suggested and what to expect when your child comes into GOSH for treatment.

Epidural for pain relief after surgery

An epidural is a continuous infusion of pain relief medicines given into the epidural space. This is an area close to the spinal cord and to the nerves supplying the area of surgery. This page from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) explains about the us

Epilepsy: navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS)

Information about navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) and how it can be used in people with epilepsy from Great Ormond Street Hospital.