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)
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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
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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?
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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?
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Could it get stuck? Explain
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