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.

Short-term parenteral nutrition

Parenteral nutrition is used when the gut is unable to absorb enough nutrition to enable your child to grow and develop normally. A liquid solution that contains nutrients (vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins and fats) needed for growth and develo

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Sialogram

This page explains about sialogram and what to expect when your child comes to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to have one.

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Single Ventricle Service Home Monitoring Programme

The Single Ventricle Service Home Monitoring Programme was developed by the collaboration of the Single Ventricle Service and the Cardiac Infant Home Monitoring Programme at GOSH to monitor babies between stage 1 and stage 2 of surgery...

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Sinogram

This page explains about fistulograms or sinograms and what to expect when your child comes to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to have the scan.

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Six Minute Walk test

This webpage from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) describes what to expect when your child is booked for a Six Minute Walk test (6MWT). The 6MWT is submaximal exercise test.

During the test your child will be asked to complete as many laps as the…

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