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.

Coming to Chameleon Ward from the intensive care units at GOSH

This leaflet explains about the process of transferring a child from the Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units (PICU/NICU) at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to Chameleon Ward. When your child’s condition improves and they no longer need specia

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Contact with blood and bodily fluids

On very rare occasions, a member of staff might injure themselves in such a way it is possible that your child’s bodily fluids could enter their body. Bodily fluids include saliva, urine and faeces (poo) but this page from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GO

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Contrast enema

This page explains about contrast enemas and what to expect when your child comes to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for the scan.

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Corpus callosotomy

This page explains about corpus callosotomy and what to expect when your child comes to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to have this procedure.

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Cryoablation

This information sheet explains about cryoablation carried out in the Interventional Radiology department at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

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