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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.

Blood transfusion

A blood transfusion is the process of giving blood donated by one person to another person who needs it. This page from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) explains about blood transfusions, what they involve and why they might be needed.

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Bone anchored hearing aids (BAHA)

A bone anchored hearing aid (BAHA) is similar to other hearing aids, but instead of being inserted into the ear canal or held behind the ear, it is attached to a soft band worn on the head or fixed to a metal implant inserted into the skull. This page fro

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Bone marrow test

Bone marrow is the soft tissue inside bones that is responsible for producing new blood cells. A bone marrow test (or biopsy) is a procedure that doctors use to examine the bone marrow inside certain bones.

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Bone marrow test - information for young people

If you come to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for a bone marrow test (or biopsy) your doctors will take a sample of your bone marrow that they can then look at closely under a microscope.

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Bone marrow transplant

Bone marrow is soft tissue that lives in the cavities of some bones and is the source of all blood cells. If you have a bone marrow transplant (BMT) at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) it replaces cells in bone marrow and swaps them for new cells.

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