Biomaterials
Most polymers are made up of _______ and _________.
What is carbon and hydrogen
A device used by healthcare professionals to listen to internal sounds of a patient’s body, primarily heart and lung sounds.
What is a stethoscope?
Prosthetic hook, hand, or other prehensile device that is inserted into the wrist unit of the prosthesis.
What is Terminal device (TD)
What branch uses cells and biochemical signals to create biological substitutes that repair or replace tissues?
What is tissue engineering?
Where can you get your technical essays or lab reports looked over?
What is the writing center at Joyner Library?
True or False: Most biomedical devices are made of just one type of material.
False
Most devices are composed of multiple types of materials including both solids and liquids present, metals, ceramics, polymers
Non-invasive device that measures the oxygen saturation level in a patient’s blood.
What is a pulse oximeter
The wrist unit provides a means to attach the TD to the forearm, and its important function is to allow the terminal device to be rotated to supination, pronation, or the mid-position before engaging in an activity.
What is wrist units
What branch analyzes and improves devices and systems interacting with the body or tissues?
What are biomechanics?
Where can you go for help on your projects for your engineering courses?
What is the open lab at SciTech?
The most widely used biopolymer application is...
What are contact lenses?
A portable device that automatically diagnoses life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias and delivers an electric shock to restore normal heart rhythm.
What is an AED (automated external defibrillator)
Constant friction, quick change, wrist flexion, ball and socket
What are the most popular types of Wrist Units
What branch improves tech involving images of the body for diagnosis, treatment, and research?
What is medical imaging?
Where can you go on main campus to print out your research presentation poster?
What is the Joyner Library
Biomedical materials emerged as a separate area of medical development in the second half of the 20th Century, specifically when the journal Biomaterials was first published in ____.
1963
A device that delivers fluids, medication, or nutrients directly into a patient’s circulatory system at controlled rates.
What is an infusion pump
What does TD stand for?
What is Terminal Device
What branch studies how biological systems interact?
What is systems physiology?
Where can you go to 3D print something for class?
What is the Isley Innovation Hub MakerSpace
What two uses can teflon be used for?
What are blood vessels and cookware
A clamp used to control bleeding by constricting blood vessels or tissue during surgery
What is a hemostat
Amputation across the axis of the fibula and tibia; labeled according to the larger of two adjacent bones; previously called below knee (BK).
What is Transtibial amputation
What branch develops devices that convert biological signals into measurable electrical or digital data?
What is bioinstrumentation?
Who is the biomedical concentration coordinator at ECU?
Who is Dr. Colleen Billings