Splints and Prostetics
A splint is used to do this to an injured limb.
This gas is always supplied by an anesthesia machine to help the patient breathe.
What is oxygen?
CAD stands for this.
What is Computer-Aided Design?
This process allows cells to make RNA from a DNA template.
What is transcription?
The President and the Vice President of the BioEngineering Club
What is Ashvath and Aryan Katakam?
The positives of spints over casts
What is speed, comfort, and weight?
This device helps people wth heart problems by sending electric pulses.
What is a pace maker?
The process of turning a 2D sketch into a 3D shape is called this.
What is an extrusion?
Water moves across cell membranes through this process.
What is osmosis?
The CAD Specalists
Who are Ameya and Sidak?
The four types of splints
Static Splints (No movement whatsoever)
Traditional Splints (Slight Pull)
Dynamic Splints (Alllows controlled movement)
Functional Splints (Allows motion)
Hospitals use this device to measure the amount of oxygen in a patient’s blood, usually attached to a finger.
What is a pulse oximeter?
CAD files can be exported into this format to be printed on a 3D printer.
What is an STL file?
This part of the cell contains enzymes that break down waste and old cell parts.
What is a lysosome?
What is customizable?
Modern 3D-printed splints are waterproof, lightweight, and highly this, meaning they fit an individual perfectly.
Splints were first made around ______ and first used by the ______.
3000 BC
Egyptians
This diagnostic device uses powerful magnetic fields and radio waves to create detailed images of soft tissues inside the body.
What is an MRI machine?
The process of turning a 2D sketch into a 3D shape is called this.
What is an extrusion?
What is plaster of Paris?
In the early 20th century, this moldable, inexpensive material became the standard for fracture care.
What is the Ohlone Humane Society?
The Organization that BioEngineering has and are partnering with.
The major advancement that Alessandro Codvilla made in 1903.
What are skeletal traction using pins?
This key part of an anesthesia machine mixes oxygen with anesthetic gases and delivers them to the patient.
What is the breathing circuit?
This analysis tool in CAD software simulates how a part reacts to forces, pressure, or heat.
What is FEA (Finite Element Analysis)
These tiny air sacs in the lungs let oxygen enter the blood.
What are alveoli?
What is water?
This Italian inventor emphasized removing contractures before tendon surgery in 1899.