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the pill cam

a camera you can swallow . . . . the pill cam. Starter. How do doctors find out what’s wrong with your external symptoms are unclear? What is an endoscopy? (if you don’t know, try to work out the meaning by breaking up the word). The pill cam article. Film clips:

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the pill cam

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

  2. Starter How do doctors find out what’s wrong with your external symptoms are unclear? What is an endoscopy? (if you don’t know, try to work out the meaning by breaking up the word)

  3. The pill cam article Film clips: • Video clip: (0:53) – demo of pill cam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv8TAaKGDF8 • Video clip: (1:46) – a ‘tethered’ pill cam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlQN3c04mu0&NR=1&feature=fvwp • Video clip: (1:10) – disassembled pill cam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4Qv8KSa3E • Video clip: (1:06) inventor of pill cam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBithokDAzs&feature=related • Video clip: (0:58) alternative to pill cam: endoscopy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZBLtHy4nc&feature=related

  4. 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.

  5. Research at home Find out more about the technologies that are used in a pill cam - for example: Digital recording Radio transmission

  6. 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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