the pill cam

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the pill cam
a camera you can swallow . . .
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Starter

• How do doctors find out whats wrong with your
  external symptoms are unclear?
• What is an endoscopy?
• (if you dont know, try to work out the meaning
  by breaking up the word)

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The pill cam article

• Film clips
• Video clip (053) demo of pill cam
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vYv8TAaKGDF8
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• Video clip (146) a tethered pill cam
  http//www.youtube.com/watch?vAlQN3c04mu0NR1fe
  aturefvwp
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• Video clip (110) disassembled pill cam
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vDJ4Qv8KSa3E
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• Video clip (106) inventor of pill cam
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vCBithokDAzsfeature
  related
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• Video clip (058) alternative to pill cam
  endoscopy
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhLZBLtHy4ncfeature
  related

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Activity

• Magazine advertisement
• Write a 250-word magazine advertisement for the
  Capsule Endoscope. Think up a brand name and a
  catchy slogan. Within the advertisement, compare
  the features of a pill cam to an endoscopy and a
  colonoscopy (and if you can't make it sound more
  attractive, you're not trying hard enough!)
  Remember that the procedure is quite expensive,
  and you'll have to convince the public it's good
  value.

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Research at home

• Find out more about the technologies that are
  used in a pill cam - for example
• Digital recording
• Radio transmission

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Worksheet

• Pill Cam the journey
• Imagine someone has swallowed a pill cam.
• Can you name the organs that the pill cam will
  pass through?
• _________________________________________________
  ______
• Use the outline sketch provided to draw in the
  route
• the pill cam takes as it travels through various
  organs
• on its journey from the mouth to the anus. Draw
  in
• and label the organs it passes through.
• How does the pill cam travel through the body?
• _________________________________________________
  ___
• Could it get stuck? Explain
• _________________________________________________
  ___

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