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Blood Tests ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis
(1930's) Blood samples that can be tested for a huge range of conditions, without invasive surgery (which had to be previously)
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Blood Pressure Monitors ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis
(1880's) to diagnose low/high blood pressure
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Endoscopes ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis
(1900's) use of a camera on the end of a thin flexible tube to see inside the body. Commonly used to investigate digestive systems or can assist by holding small instruments
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Blood Sugar Monitoring ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis
(1960's) allows people to check there blood sugar levels regularly (eg those who suffer from diabetes)
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ECG's ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis
(1900's) "Electro Cardiograms" electrical impulses to track heart activity
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X-rays ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis
(1890's) help to see inside the body without going into it (eg. Brocken bones)
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MRI Scans ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis
(1970's) use of magnetic and radio waves to create an internal image of the body. Better for diagnosing soft tissue injuries (an alternative to X-rays)
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CT Scans ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis
(1970's) more advanced than X-rays. To diagnose tumours and other growths in the body
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Ultrasound Scans ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis
(1940's) (also known as sonograms) use of sound waves to build up an image inside the body (eg. gall stones/kidney stones)
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Advanced X-rays Topic-Medical Treatments
X-rays can target and shrink tumours from different treats like radiotherapy and chemotherapy (effective for many cancer treatments)
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Smaller-Cheaper machines Topic-Medical Treatments
Processes like dialysis - a machine can "wash" the blood a kidney failure patients. Or a heart bypass, where a machine takes over the function of the heart
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Robotics Topic-Medical Treatments
more and better prosthetic limbs are being produced
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Microsurgery (organ transplant dates?) Topic-Surgical Treatments
Organ transplants - Kidneys (1956 by identical twins from USA) Lungs (1963) Heart (1967)
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Laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery Topic-Surgical Treatments
using narrow holes and smaller instruments, surgery can be carried out from a further distance and the body is left with less trauma and an quicker/easier healing process
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Robotic Surgery Topic-Surgical Treatments
Surgeons can now use computers to do more precise and smaller operations eg brain surgery
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Endoscopes ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis

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Blood Sugar Monitoring ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis

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ECG's ? (Date?) Topic-Diagnosis

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