It's a narrative almost two decades in the making, even if Carli Tourdot, a child life specialist at Mayo Clinic, didn't always know it would one day become a book.

Children's Mercy created a magical mock surgery experience for an 11-year-old patient with a rare condition who dreams of ...

A study published in the journal Music and Medicine demonstrates that intraoperative music therapy significantly reduces the ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WLUK) --An Appleton hospital is wheeling in comfort for its youngest patients with new remote-control ride-on cars. The Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and Surgery Team at ThedaCare ...

Researchers in Japan conducted a randomized clinical trial in 177 children (age, 1 year to < 6 years; 71% boys) scheduled for elective surgery involving the lower abdomen or extremities to assess ...

In over 70,000 pediatric surgeries, many children went without clear liquids for double the recommended fasting time, raising ...

Every year, more than 13 million babies are born prematurely worldwide, and up to one-third of them require surgical repair ...

One Tennessee mother had the most hilarious reaction post-surgery, when she was still feeling the grudging effects of general anesthesia. Prior to Belle Blake’s nose surgery, she told her husband to ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (KFSN) -- Surgery can be a scary thing no matter how old you are, but for children it can be really daunting. Doctors know one of the scariest parts for children is being wheeled away ...