| SENIOR SCIENCE MODULE 9.3 Medical Technology- Bionics | |||||
| SYLLABUS REFERENCE | COLUMN-DOT POINT | TITLE | REFERENCE | SUMMARY | |
| 9.3.1 | p 51: 2-1; 3-2 | Yorick the Bionic Skeleton- | US Food Drug Administartion | Details of implants and artificial devices throughout the body | |
| 9.3.1 | p 51: 2-1; 3-2 | What is a cochlear implant? | Bionic Ear Institute | Cochlear implants- what are they, how do they work | |
| 9.3.1 | p 51: 2-1; 3-2 | Cochlear implants- Wiring for sound | NOVA Science | The development of the cochlear implant by Australian scientists | |
| 9.3.1 | p 51: 2-1; 3-2 | How Dental Implants Work | How Stuff Works | Implant basics and procedures | |
| 9.3.1 | p 51: 2-1; 3-2 | The Eye- how lenses work | The Physics Classroom | The Anatomy of the Eye | |
| 9.3.1 | p 51: 2-1; 3-2 | The virtual hospital- hip replacements etc | The Virtual Hospital | Information on procedures such as hip replacements | |
| 9.3.1 | p 51: 2-1; 3-2 | Biomaterials | Biomaterials | Links to sites about Biomaterials | |
| 9.3.1 | p 51: 2-1; 3-1 | History of Heart Disease | The Franklin Institute | ||
| 9.3.1 | p 51: 2-1; 3-1 | History of western Biomedicine | Karolinska Institute | ||
| 9.3.1 | p 51: 2-1; 3-1 | Prosthetic History | North Western University | Prosthetics | |
| 9.3.2 | p 51 | Artificial valves | http://www.csmc.edu/cvs/md/valve/default.htm | ||
| 9.3.2 | Heart Valves | http://www.medtronic.com/cardiac/heartvalves/intro.html | |||
| 9.3.2 | What is a pacemaker | http://www.americanheart.org/Heart_and_Stroke_A_Z_Guide/pacem.html | |||
| 9.3.2 | How pacemakers work and why they are needed | http://www.cardio.com/articles/pacemakr.htm | |||
| 9.3.2 | How your heart works | http://www.howstuffworks.com/heart.htm | |||
| 9.3.2 | Angioplasty (How heart attacks work) | http://www.howstuffworks.com/heart-attack1.htm | |||
| 9.3.3 | UHMWPE | http://www.montell.com/products/p-uhmw.html | |||
| 9.3.3 | UHMWPE | http://www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/pe.htm | |||
| 9.3.3 | UHMWPE | http://www.plasticspecialties.com/flash/what/index.html | |||
| 9.3.3 | Hip Implants | http://www.hippain.com/hip2.html | |||
| 9.3.4 | Artificial Lungs and Hearts | http://www.pitt.edu/~biotech/hbiomed.htm | |||
| 9.3.4 | CPR | http://insideneworleans.adam.com/ency/article/000010.htm | |||
| 9.3.4 | The lungs- how they work | http://www.lungnet.org.au/thelungs.html | |||
| 9.3.4 | CPR | http://www.box.net.au/~harmon/uppersturt/cpr.htm | |||
| 9.3.4 | Airways and lungs | http://www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/weller/+docs/respire1.htm | |||
| 9.3.4: 3-3 | Oxygen intake-How much oxygen does a person consume in a day? | http://www.howstuffworks.com/question98.htm | |||
| 9.3.5 | Xrays | http://www.colorado.edu/physics/PhysicsInitiative/Physics2000/xray/index.html | |||
| 9.3.5 | Cat scans | http://www.colorado.edu/physics/PhysicsInitiative/Physics2000/tomography/index.html | |||
| 9.3.5 | Ultrasound- imaging with sound | http://www.letsfindout.com/subjects/body/rfiechoc.html | |||
| 9.3.5 | MRI | http://www.letsfindout.com/subjects/body/rfimrihe.html | |||
| 9.3.5 | MRI- Howstuffworks | http://www.howstuffworks.com/mri.htm | |||
| 9.3.5 | Thermography | http://home.earthlink.net/~docbill/athand.htm | |||
| 9.3.5 | Thermography | http://www.meditherm.com/Human/default.htm | |||
| 9.3.5 | The Basics of MRI | http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/inside.htm | |||
| 9.3.5 | Laparoscopy- Key Hole surgery | http://www.laparoscopy.com/ | |||
| 9.3.5 | Laparoscopic surgery | http://www.universityobgyn.com/laparosc.htm | |||